Investigating the impact of structural racism on black birthing people - associations between racialized economic segregation, incarceration inequality, and severe maternal morbidity.

ABSTRACT: Black birthing people are twice as likely to experience severe maternal morbidity (SMM) as their white counterparts. Structural racism provides a framework for understanding root causes of perinatal health disparities. Our objective was to investigate associations between measures of structural racism and severe maternal morbidity (SMM) among Black birthing people in the US. We linked delivery hospitalizations for Black birthing people in the National Inpatient Sample (2008-2011) with data from the American Community Survey 5-year estimates and the Vera Institute of Justice Incarceration Trends datasets (2008-2011). Structural racism measures included the Index of Concentration at the Extremes for race and income (i.e., racialized economic segregation) and Black-white incarceration inequal

SUBMITTER: Jeffers NK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9910389 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature