Introduction
Thesis: African American women are dying four times the rate of white and non-Hispanic women. Are this due underlying social and economic inequities that are rooted in racism and discrimination?
Seventy-five percent of Black women give birth at hospitals that serve Black populations.
Lack of resource in minorities hospitals that lead higher maternal death.
Black women are more likely to experience preventable maternal death compared with white women.
Body Section 1
Access to health coverage
Policymakers should focus on expanding and maintaining access to care and coverage.
Black women coverage gap.
Expand paid family and medical leave.
Section 2
Quality of care for African American Women
Expand access to quality, patient-centered and comprehensive reproductive health care.
protect access to trusted community providers.
Black women’s access to abortion is limited due to increased costs or lack of access to care.
Invest in health care safety and quality improvement initiatives.
Section 3
Preconception Care/ Postpartum Care disparities
comorbidities and adverse maternal outcomes highlight the crucial need for a focus on women’s health before conception.
Education for proper postpartum care
Providers listening to African American women concern regarding pain.
Conclusion
African American women deserve to have safe and healthy pregnancies and childbirth. To improve Black maternal health outcomes, we need systemic health care system, improves access to care and makes the places Black women live and work healthier. Be more inclusive and more responsive to their needs. Only when we do that will Black women be able to achieve their optimal health care and decrease numbers maternal death rates.
