Gender is not accurately captured by the traditional male and female dichotomy of sex.
Instead, it is a complex social system that structures the life experience of all human beings …

Black women bear the burden of a number of crises related to reproduction. Historically,
their reproduction has been governed in relation to the slave economy, and connected to …

Background To examine racial/ethnic and educational inequities in the relationship between
state-level restrictive abortion policies and adverse birth outcomes from 2005 to 2015 in the …

A convention, particularly in economics and sociology, for empirical identification of the
“middle class” has been to mark off a segment of the population above a lower bound with …

Social Policy for Effective Practice: A Strengths Approach sharpens students' awareness of
social welfare policy and offers a considerable array of resources and knowledge …

Purpose To examine the effectiveness of early and adequate prenatal care (PNC) in
reducing racial disparities in pre-term birth (PTB) among low-income women. Design and …

Introduction Events of spring 2020—the COVID19 pandemic and re-birth of a social justice
movement—have thrown disparities in disease risk, morbidity, and mortality in sharp relief …

Empowering patients to be effective advocates for their health requires that they have
adequate information and understanding about their health conditions. Many patients have …

In 1966, Southern hospitals were barred from participating in Medicare unless they
discontinued their long-standing practice of racial segregation. Using data from five Deep …

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