Racism and Perinatal Health Inequities Research: Where we have been and where we should go

For over a century, substantial racial and ethnic inequities in perinatal health outcomes have persisted despite technical clinical advances and changes in public health practice that lowered the overall incidence of morbidity. Race is a social construct and not an inherent biological or genetic reality; therefore, racial differences in health outcomes represent the consequences of structural racism, or the inequitable distribution of opportunities for health along racialized lines. Clinicians and scientists in obstetrics and gynecology have a responsibility to work to eliminate health inequities for Black, Brown, and Indigenous birthing people, and fulfilling this responsibility requires actionable evidence from high quality research.
Source: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Special Report Source Type: research