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Defining Birth Equity In Kansas, Oluoma Obi, Michelle L. Redmond, Joi Wickliffe, Sapphire Garcia-Lies, Sharla Smith
Defining Birth Equity In Kansas, Oluoma Obi, Michelle L. Redmond, Joi Wickliffe, Sapphire Garcia-Lies, Sharla Smith
Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice
Background: While some health outcomes improve in the United States, racial and ethnic disparities in pregnancy-related outcomes persist. In the United States and Kansas, Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related complication than white women.
Description: The Kansas Birth Equity Network (KBEN), is an initiative developed to address racial disparities in maternal and child health outcomes. We used a community-centered approach to collect stakeholder perceptions of birth equity and develop a case definition of birth equity.
Methods: An open-ended online survey was designed to collect stakeholders’ definition of birth equity, their organization’s birth equity missions, …