Maternal Mortality 1
three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women, a disparity that persists regardless of education or socioeconomic status.
What are Black Women?
report lower levels of trust in their clinicians, and many have reported being mistreated, ignored, or refused requests for help during pregnancy.
What are Latinx women?
report lower levels of trust in their clinicians, and many have reported being mistreated, ignored, or refused requests for help during pregnancy.
What are hispanic/LatinX women?
These groups have higher rates of receiving late or no prenatal care compared to white women, possibly due to barriers like poverty, transportation, and implicit bias.
What is American Indian and Alaska Native Women?
are more than three times as likely as white women to experience a pregnancy-related death. AI/AN infants have an infant mortality rate nearly twice as high as white infants.
What are American Indian and Alaska Native women?
are often perceived as "noncompliant," "aggressive," or as having a higher pain tolerance, which influences provider interactions and can appear in a patient's medical record.
What are Black women?
have higher rates of receiving late or no prenatal care compared to white women, possibly due to barriers like poverty, transportation, and implicit bias.
What are American Indian and Alaska Native Women?
Stigma and other barriers mean that mental health conditions in these women often go undiagnosed and untreated.
Whats are Hispanic/Latinx women?
women have higher rates of perinatal depression compared to white women, yet face cultural and other barriers to receiving appropriate mental health support
What are Asian women?
Research indicates that these women with fibroids are offered hysterectomies as a first-line treatment more frequently than white women, who are more often given less invasive options first.
What are Black women?