Birth
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Kimberley Seals Allers, was inspired to start Irth because of stories she her from many mothers as well as her own experience of bias in the health care system during the delivery of her first child. Tom Mason/The Big Idea: Birth Without Bias hide caption toggle caption Tom Mason/The Big Idea: Birth Without Bias Kimberley […]
Despite the inside of the building at 24th and Grant streets, the future for it is bright. “I get chills,” Ashlei Spivey said. “When I see our logo and just what this is going to be. This is the front of our building, you can see into our waiting room.” Those are just the renderings. […]
The closest abortion clinic for a 13-year-old Black girl in Cleveland, Miss., who was raped is 600 miles away in Chicago. Although Mississippi has a near-total abortion ban, pregnant people can get an abortion if they have been raped or if the pregnancy is causing life-threatening conditions. But the girl and her mother were unaware […]
Teenage birth rates have fallen to their lowest levels ever, new provisional federal data published Thursday found. The report, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, showed the birth rate among 15- to 19-year-olds in 2022 was 13.5 per 1,000 females. That’s a 3% drop from the rate of […]
From birth to death, Black Americans fare worse in measures of health compared to their white counterparts. They have higher rates of infant and maternal mortality, higher incidence of asthma during childhood, more difficulty treating mental health as teens, and greater rates of high blood pressure, Alzheimer’s disease and other illnesses. The Associated Press spent […]
March 21st, 2023 was a cool spring day in the Desoto suburb of Dallas, Texas. Supported by a doula and their two older children, Temecia and Rodney Jackson welcomed their new baby Mila in their home, completing their family. Their beautiful baby girl was 6 pounds, 9 ounces, and the light of their life. Three […]
The oncologist said “You’re pregnant, and your blood pressure is not good. I want you to go to the ER today. You need to call your midwife and get confirmation from her — but I’m just telling you, I really think you need to go to the ER.” By now, I’m freaking out. I had […]
Nowhere are the disparities more apparent than in health care. Technically, it has long been available to all, thanks to the universal health care law passed when Andrés and Marleny were children. But in practice, the barriers to access are often insurmountable: a lack of reliable transportation; clinics that are understaffed and often difficult to […]
A recent study from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) found that the wealthiest women and their infants are more likely to have better childbirth outcomes than those who are not. Unless they’re Black, that is, where new statistics reveal a disproportionate impact on people of color, regardless of income level. The study documents . . .
(Xinhua) 13:20, March 03, 2023 A woman wearing a face mask waits in line outside a store in a shopping center in New Orleans, Louisiana, the United States, Jan. 11, 2022. (Photo by Lan Wei/Xinhua) This evidence implies that policies seeking to achieve racial health equity cannot succeed if they only target economic markers of […]