History of OB/Gyn
Commonly known as "The Father of Gynecology". This man conducted research on enslaved women without anesthesia. He operated under the guise that black people did not feel pain.
Who is Marion Sims?
She is the first woman to graduate from medical school and become a physician in the United States.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
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Black women have a pregnancy related mortality ratio ____ times higher than white women.
What is five?
There are 5.4% of these individuals in the medical field and only 3% are black women.
What is black physicians?
This black woman was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Her cancer cells (referred to as HeLa cells) were used to study the effects of drugs, hormones, viruses, etc w/o use of human subjects.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
This woman opened the first birth control clinic in the US. It was located in Brownsville, Brooklyn.
Who is Elizabeth Sanger?
This theory suggests that black women experience earlier deterioration of health because of the cumulative impact of exposure to psychosocial, economic, and environmental stressors.
What is weathering?
This organization supports the CDC’s efforts to prevent pregnancy-related deaths by sharing potentially life-saving messages about urgent warning signs.
What is the Hear Her campaign?
These are three black women who were Dr. Sim's fistula patients. They endured the experimentation of his surgical technique to repair postpartum fistulas.
Who is Lucy, Betsey and Anarcha?
This declaration of the constitution was created to protect a woman's legal right to an abortion. It was written in 1973. This was overturned in June 2022.
What is Roe v. Wade?
This ethnicity has the highest rates of preterm birth.
What is black women?
This program was developed in 1987. It collects jurisdiction-specific, population-based data on maternal attitudes and experiences before, during, and shortly after pregnancy
What is Pregnancy Risk Assessment monitoring Systems (PRAMS)?
These black women worked in rural and remote parts of the South as birth attendants. This began as early as slavery times.
Who are "granny midwives"?
She is the first African American woman in the United States to earn her medical degree.
Who is Rebecca Lee Crumpler?
When all other things are equal [age, marital status, prenatal care, her education level and that of her partner, and neighborhood poverty level], this factor has been an underlying contributor to disparities.
What is racism?
This person is trained to advise, inform, and offer emotional and physical comfort to a mother before, during, and after the birth of her child.
This federal law was created in 1921. It required midwives to obtain a license prior to practicing midwifery. This caused a marked decrease in the number of black midwives.
What is the Shepphard-Tower Infancy and Protection Act?
Who is Virginia Apgar?
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Preterm birth rates are _____ for non-Hispanic Black women who have higher educational attainment than for non-Hispanic White, Asian, or Hispanic women with lower educational attainment.
What is higher?
This organization helps to fight for improvement in maternal outcomes through advocacy and coalition building, educate the public, provide peer support to victim’s families, and promote the idea that maternal mortality should be viewed, and discussed as a human rights issue.
What is 4Kira4Moms?