Each year in the United States, about 700 to 1,200 women die from pregnancy or childbirth complications, and black women are about three to four times more likely to die of pregnancy or delivery complications than white women.Why the increase? Some researchers argue that health officials simply have improved counting deaths over time by using new classification codes and introducing a pregnancy status box on death certificates in 2003, which could make it appear that there's an increase.Others argue that higher rates of obesity, women having children at older ages, and other social changes and trends in public health could drive an apparent increase.Historically, black women in low-income communities haven't had the same access to quality care as white women in high-income communities.
Overall, I think this crisis was bound to happen.Black women are treated differently than white women when it comes to health cares issues and their low-income communities don't give them the equal quality care that they, by human rights, need.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/15/health/black-women-maternal-mortality/index.html
Selah Hunter
ReplyDeleteI didn’t know this was about how doctors and stuff treat someone different of a different race but maybe how black women in general may live in crappier neighborhoods. How suburban neighborhoods were specifically made for white people (that’s a different conversation. There’s a Adam ruins everything episode about it) which also leads to what the people near that neighborhood eat and how they eat. So I think it’s a majority of things but not specifically about how black women are treated.
That's interesting. I never thought about birth rates and such.
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