Despite decades of investment and improvements in infant health in the United States,
efforts to ensure the health and well-being of birthing people, especially those from …

Since the World Health Organization launched its commission on the social determinants of
health (SDOH) over a decade ago, a large body of research has proven that social …

The disparity between blacks and whites in perinatal health ranges from a 2.3-fold excess
risk among black women for preterm delivery and infant mortality to a 4-fold excess risk …

For more than a century, substantial racial and ethnic inequities in perinatal health outcomes
have persisted despite technical clinical advances and changes in public health practice …

Health inequities are not caused by personal failings or shortcomings within disadvantaged
groups, which can be erased with behavioral interventions. The scope of the problem is …

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 …

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention define social determinants of health as “the
conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play” that can affect health …

Attempts over decades have failed to eliminate the glaring inequity in birth outcomes
between Americans of different races. We propose broadening the approach to dealing with …

Social disadvantage impacts the health of women and newborns throughout the life course.
Contributing factors such as low educational attainment, unemployment, poverty, and lack of …

Wide disparities in obstetric outcomes exist between women of different race/ethnicities. The
prevalence of preterm birth, fetal growth restriction, fetal demise, maternal mortality, and …