Reduction of Peripartum Racial and Ethnic Disparities
2018/04/24 by Elizabeth A. Howell, Haywood L. Brown, Haywood Brown +17 · 163 citations
Medicine · Nursing · #Economic growth #Emergency and Acute Care Studies #Environmental health #Ethnic group #Family medicine #Health care #Health equity #Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions #Maternal and fetal healthcare #Medicine #Nursing #Population #Pregnancy #Prenatal care #Public health #Workgroup
paper · doi:10.1097/aog.0000000000002475
published in Obstetrics and Gynecology 131(5), 770-782 (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins)
openalex publication_date 2018/04/24 · openalex created_date 2019/03/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
Abstract
Racial and ethnic disparities exist in both perinatal outcomes and health care quality. For example, black women are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes and have more than a twofold greater risk of severe maternal morbidity than white women. In an effort to achieve health equity in maternal morbidity and mortality, a multidisciplinary workgroup of the National Partnership for Maternal Safety, within the Council on Patient Safety in Women's Health Care, developed a concept article for the bundle on reduction of peripartum disparities. We aimed to provide health care providers and health systems with insight into racial and ethnic disparities in maternal outcomes, the etiologies that are modifiable within a health care system, and resources that can be used to address these etiologies and achieve the desired end of safe and equitable health care for all childbearing women.
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