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Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
Reframing Resistance, Resilience, And Racial Equity In Maternal Health: A Mixed Methods Exploration Of Paternal Involvement And The Racial Disparity In Severe Maternal Morbidity, Marshara G. Fross
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Background: The preventable, persistent racial inequity observed in maternal and infant death has lasting impacts on African American communities and families. Fathers, partners, and co-parents are important supports during the sensitive and vulnerable perinatal period. Emerging research has begun to demonstrate a concerted effort to move beyond the sphere of medicine and quality improvement, towards exploring and integrating social factors into targeted intervention strategies to address racial inequality in health outcomes. However, sparse literature concentrates on understanding the role of fathers and partners in peripartum care and maternal health outcomes. This study aimed to explore, understand, and describe the role …
Editors’ Notes, Nekeshia Jones, Sharla Smith, Melva Thompson-Robinson
Editors’ Notes, Nekeshia Jones, Sharla Smith, Melva Thompson-Robinson
Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice
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Addressing Racial Disparities In Maternal Health: The Case For An Equity Birth Plan, Alice Trye, Damali Campbell Oparaji, Natalie Roche, Lisa Gittens Williams
Addressing Racial Disparities In Maternal Health: The Case For An Equity Birth Plan, Alice Trye, Damali Campbell Oparaji, Natalie Roche, Lisa Gittens Williams
Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice
Birth equity can be defined as “The assurance of the conditions of optimal births for all people with a willingness to address racial and social inequities in a sustained effort.” (Birth Equity |California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative, n.d.). Complex explanations exist for adverse maternal outcomes, but unequal health care, socioeconomic and racial inequalities pose risks to women and their babies (“Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care,” 2003). The data is clear: Maternal death rates have increased and are 3 to 4 times higher for black women than white women (Zaharatos et al., 2018). These …
Editor's Notes, Nekeshia Jones, Sharla Smith, Melva Thompson-Robinson
Editor's Notes, Nekeshia Jones, Sharla Smith, Melva Thompson-Robinson
Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice
These Editors' Notes introduce the first special issue of the Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice based on the work the National Maternal Health Research Network.
Implicit Bias Training For Perinatal Nursing, Racheal Lakine-Harden
Implicit Bias Training For Perinatal Nursing, Racheal Lakine-Harden
Dissertations
Problem: Maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality is a rising health care crisis in the United States. Black women are disproportionately affected. Clinician implicit bias and medical racism have been named as factors in this crisis. Recommendations to address this public health peril include; educating and raising awareness among front-line perinatal nursing staff on implicit bias and its consequences for Black women. The purpose of this project is to evaluate the impact of implicit bias training on nurses’ awareness of implicit bias, attitudes, and beliefs about disparities, and the likelihood to engage in behaviors to reduce or address racial bias …
A Mixed Methods Case Study Of Food Shopping In A Community With High Infant Mortality, Sarah Evenosky, Eleanor Lewis, Katherine Isselmann Disantis
A Mixed Methods Case Study Of Food Shopping In A Community With High Infant Mortality, Sarah Evenosky, Eleanor Lewis, Katherine Isselmann Disantis
College of Population Health Faculty Papers
In the U.S., preterm birth disproportionately impacts certain racial/ethnic groups, with Black women experiencing preterm birth at a rate 50% higher than other groups. Among the numerous factors that likely contribute to these increased rates are neighborhood characteristics, such as food environment. In this mixed-methods case study, we evaluated how pregnant women living in a predominately minority, lower income community with high preterm birth rates navigate and perceive their food environment. Qualitative interviews were performed to assess perceptions of food environment (n = 7) along with geographic and observational assessments of their food environment. Participants traveled an average of 2.10 …