Racism and perinatal health inequities research: where we have been and where we should go.

ABSTRACT: For more than 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 biologic 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. To generate this actionable evidence, the research c

SUBMITTER: Headen IE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9529822 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature