{"id":3282,"date":"2020-08-20T13:44:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3282"},"modified":"2020-08-20T13:44:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T13:44:59","slug":"america-is-failing-black-moms-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3282","title":{"rendered":"America is failing Black moms during the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Black women are disproportionately impacted, dying in childbirth at three to four times<\/a> the rate of white women.”
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“Many factors contribute to overall maternal mortality in the US, from underlying conditions like diabetes to a lack of adequate health insurance. All of these disproportionately impact Black women \u2014 Black Americans, for example, are 60 percent more likely<\/a> than whites to be diagnosed with diabetes. And 11.5 percent of Black Americans were uninsured<\/a> as of 2018, compared with just 7.5 percent of whites.” 
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“For Black women, \u201ceven when we get prenatal care,\u201d Crear-Perry explained, \u201ceven when we are normal weight and not obese, even when we have no underlying medical conditions, we are still more likely to die in childbirth than our white counterparts.\u201d In New York City, for example, a 2016 study<\/a> found that Black patients with a college education were more likely to have pregnancy or childbirth complications than white patients who hadn\u2019t graduated from high school.”  
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“Part of the issue is that providers treat Black patients differently from white ones. Black women and other women of color often aren\u2019t listened to when they express pain or discomfort, Jamila Taylor, director of health care reform at the Century Foundation, told Vox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Racist beliefs about people\u2019s bodies and their ability to experience pain are shockingly widespread: Half of the white medical students and residents surveyed in one 2016 study<\/a>, for example, believed at least one myth about racial differences in pain perception, such as the idea that Black people\u2019s nerve endings are less sensitive than white people\u2019s. The more myths someone believed, the more likely that person was to underestimate a Black patient\u2019s pain.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Advocates have long been calling for greater access to non-hospital births, whether at a birthing center or at home, as a way to combat the discrimination Black patients and other patients of color can face in hospital settings. \u201cOther countries that have better outcomes than we do create a system and a network of birth centers and home births that allow for people to make choices based upon their needs,\u201d Crear-Perry said.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n


https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/8\/10\/21336312\/covid-19-pregnancy-birth-black-maternal-mortality<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Black women are disproportionately impacted, dying in childbirth at three to four times the rate of white women.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Many factors contribute to overall maternal mortality in the US, from underlying conditions like diabetes to a lack of adequate health insurance. All of these disproportionately impact Black women \u2014 Black Americans, for example, are 60 percent more likely than whites to be diagnosed with diabetes. And 11.5 percent of Black Americans were uninsured as of 2018, compared with just 7.5 percent of whites.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“For Black women, \u201ceven when we get prenatal care,\u201d Crear-Perry explained, \u201ceven when we are normal weight and not obese, even when we have no underlying medical conditions, we are still more likely to die in childbirth than our white counterparts.\u201d In New York City, for example, a 2016 study found that Black patients with a college education were more likely to have pregnancy or childbirth complications than white patients who hadn\u2019t graduated from high school.” <\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Part of the issue is that providers treat Black patients differently from white ones. Black women and other women of color often aren\u2019t listened to when they express pain or discomfort, Jamila Taylor, director of health care reform at the Century Foundation, told Vox.
\nRacist beliefs about people\u2019s bodies and their ability to experience pain are shockingly widespread: Half of the white medical students and residents surveyed in one 2016 study, for example, believed at least one myth about racial differences in pain perception, such as the idea that Black people\u2019s nerve endings are less sensitive than white people\u2019s. The more myths someone believed, the more likely that person was to underestimate a Black patient\u2019s pain.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“Advocates have long been calling for greater access to non-hospital births, whether at a birthing center or at home, as a way to combat the discrimination Black patients and other patients of color can face in hospital settings. \u201cOther countries that have better outcomes than we do create a system and a network of birth centers and home births that allow for people to make choices based upon their needs,\u201d Crear-Perry said.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[625,56,346,53,80,73,50,642],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-births","tag-black","tag-death-rates","tag-deaths","tag-health-system","tag-healthcare","tag-medical","tag-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3283,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/3283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}