Abstract In the United States, racial disparities in adverse maternal health outcomes remain
a pressing issue, with Black women experiencing a 3–4 times higher risk of maternal …

Black women in the United States have experienced substantial improvements in health
during the last century, yet health disparities persist. These health disparities are in large …

Abstract In the United States, Black infants have significantly worse birth outcomes than
White infants. Over the past decades, public health efforts to address these disparities have …

Objective. To examine whether community health centers (CHCs) reduce racial/ethnic
disparities in perinatal care and birth outcomes, and to identify CHC characteristics …

Severe maternal morbidity (SMM) is 50 to 100 times more common than maternal death, and
has increased disproportionately among ethnic/racial minority women in the United States …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate factors associated with differential state maternal mortality ratios
and to quantitate the contribution of various demographic factors to such variation …

Recent national and state legislation has called attention to stark racial/ethnic disparities in
maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity (SMM), the latter of which is defined as …

Objectives. We sought to measure overall disparities in pregnancy outcome, incorporating
data from the many race and ethnic groups that compose the US population, to improve …

Objectives We examine associations between infant mortality rates (IMRs) and measures of
structural racism and socio-economic marginalization in Chicago, Illinois. Our purpose was …

The disparity in maternal mortality for African American women remains one of the greatest
public health inequities in the United States (US). To better understand approaches toward …