Health equity research in obstetric anesthesia.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

Health equity is an important priority for obstetric anesthesia, but describing disparities in perinatal care process and health outcome is insufficient to achieve this goal. Conceptualizing and framing disparity is a prerequisite to pose meaningful research questions. We emphasize the need to hypothesize and test which mechanisms and drivers are instrumental for disparities in perinatal processes and outcomes, in order to target, test and refine effective countermeasures.

Recent findings

With an emphasis on methodology and measurement, we sketch how health systems and disparity research may advance maternal health equity by narrating, conceptualizing, and investigating social determinants of health as key drivers of perinatal disparity, by identifying the

SUBMITTER: Toyobo O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9179173 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature