Related to mother mortality
Black mothers are more likely to have THIS condition.
What is: high blood pressure (hypertension)?
The risk of preterm birth and low birthweight is also heightened due to stress experienced during this period.
What is: prental? This makes the healthcare mothers receive very important!
This is how structural racism is commonly defined.
What is: discriminatory laws and processes to advantage one racial group over another in society through the unequal distributions of access to resources and economic opportunity
This is the time frame that "perinatal" covers.
What is: Before and after birth!
These are some ways that education can help alleviate these issues.
What is: Awareness about this topic could encourage active efforts to support Black women during their pregnancy from doctors, healthcare workers, and peers!
These are two ways geography exacerbate pregnancy complications.
What are: Environmental pollutants (more common in lower-income areas); lower income areas may correlate strongly with other stress factors; food deserts may make it more difficult to get the correct nutrients.
Experiencing more barriers to prenatal health care is associated with this kind of postnatal symptoms for the mother.
What are: depressive?
Law enforcement and policing black families impact reproduction decisions. THIS is how.
What is: Harassment for basic behaviors from police and challenges with CPS judging black families more harshly may impact the decision of whether or not people may want to have children.
Black women are more likely to have the health concerns: pregestational diabetes, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and this.
What is: chronic hypertension
These are some collective actions that can be taken to support black women through pregnancy and beyond.
What are: Engaging with organizations like Black Mamas Matter Alliance and Center for Black Women’s Wellness through education and support for their events!
THIS is an example of a "social toxin" that has correlated with higher mortality rates for black people.
What are: Google searches including the n word (racism)
These are two economic barriers to healthcare for black mothers.
What are: lack of insurance coverage and economic inequality?
Lower levels of education and higher povery levels (more common in POC due to structural barriers) correlate with THIS related to pregnancy.
What is: Lower birth weight for the baby and higher rates of preterm births
Healthcare providers may be disproportionately blaming black women for THIS without considering structural barriers.
What is: their (and their fetus') health
Racism would count as this type of influence on developent.
sociocultural
Black women are more likely to die in childbirth than white women-- THIS is how many times the difference is.
What is: 4 times more likely
These are at least three barriers to healthcare for black women related to pregnancy.
What are: segregation of neighborhoods; segregated hospitals; discrimination by providers; limited education access; lack of insurance coverage; economic inequality
Black communities are more likely to lack or struggle with these certain elements of community infrastructure.
What is: Lack of access to food and green spaces; desensitization to violence from policing practices
Black women have a higher likelihood of developing gestational diabetes, which they are more likely to recieve low quality care for, which can be associated with THESE complications.
What is: high risk of other serious health concerns and pregnancy complications.
Prenatal care is important for infant's development because of these reasons.
What are: teratogen exposure, maternal stress, and maternal health impact how infants develop. Care during this period can avoid a variety of issues for the child growing up.
What percent of black women give birth to infants with preterm birth and low birthweigh?
13.2%
Nearly WHAT of the mothers in Scott's study reported experiencing at least one barrier to accessing prenatal health care.
What is: half
In 2015, Black women in the US had an infant mortality rate of THIS NUMBER per 1000 live births compared to 4.9 per 1000 in white women.
What is: 11.4
These are some ways of supporting black women's perinatal care.
What is: Universal pre-conception care for pregestation diabetes, Innovative programs, Representation in healthcare
Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory be applied to this topic. This is how each level relates to it.
What is: The micro (doctors, parents), meso (doctor and parent communication), exo (mother's stress, community), macro (existence of structural racism), and chronosystems (time period we are in) impact the care women recieve, helping us understand the different ways change needs to happen!