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by charlescearl
1350 days ago
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The racial disparities cut across class. The most famous example being the complications that Serena Williams experienced during delivery https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/1/11/16879984/serena-wil.... The impact of lives lost and diminished by racialized access to and administration of health care is immense https://ballardbrief.byu.edu/issue-briefs/maternal-mortality... Besides looking at other industrialized countries, it also insightful to look at the health outcomes of the us against other Caribbean and African states, particularly in the places where most of the Black women in the us live.
In 2019, the reported maternal mortality rate (MMR) for Black women in the US state of Georgia was 66 / 100,000. Barbados MMR of 12.6 / 100,000.
Bahamas, MMR of 22.4 / 100,000.
Zimbabwe, MMR of 53.9 / 100,000.
Botswana, MMR of 45.9 / 100,000 (the MMR of white women in Georgia)
Jamaica, MMR of 13.7 / 100,000.
Cuba, MMR of 5.1 / 100,000 https://data.unicef.org/country |
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“Of note, black mothers who are college-educated fare worse than women of all other races who never finished high school. Obese women of all races do better than black women who are of normal weight. And black women in the wealthiest neighborhoods do worse than white, Hispanic and Asian mothers in the poorest ones.”