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Proposed interventions to reduce racial disparities in maternal health outcomes target changes at individual, health care system, and health care policy levels. [1] Some states are utilizing federal block grant money for initiatives targeting reductions in maternal morbidity and mortality for Black and Hispanic women. [ 13 ]
There is also a gap in contraceptive use between white and Black women. These disparities are partly due to lack of health insurance and financial costs. [204] Comprehensive gynecological care can also help reduce the rates of HIV in minority women and increase contraceptive use. [204]
African American women are less likely to be diagnosed at an early stage of ovarian cancer as compared to white women due to lower rates of private health insurance coverage. [38] As a result, African American women have been found to be at higher risk of presenting with advanced, late-stage aggressive ovarian cancer for which current treatment ...
The Associated Press spent a year examining how racial health disparities have harmed generations of Black Americans. ... Black women have the highest maternal mortality rate in the United States ...
In the states of Pennsylvania, Missouri, and California, the journal article "Black-white disparities in maternal in-hospital mortality according to teaching and black-serving hospital status" discovered that between the years of 1995 to 2000, out of every 100,000 patients in a hospital, 11.5 black women died during pregnancy, and 4.8 white ...
Femtech, or digital solutions centered on women's health and wellness, could help address gaps in the healthcare system. Femtech, or digital solutions centered on women's health and wellness ...
Health disparities refer to gaps in the quality of health and health care across racial and ethnic groups. [13] The US Health Resources and Services Administration defines health disparities as "population-specific differences in the presence of disease, health outcomes, or access to health care". [14]
Black women are 2½ times more likely to die of maternal causes than white women and this rate increases to 3 times when compared to Hispanic Americans. [36] The infant mortality rate for Black Americans is 11 per 1,000 births which is higher than the US average of 5.7.