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Helping Black Women with Health Disparities

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Helping Black Women with Health Disparities

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There are numerous of organizations that are helping black women dealing with health disparities and helping to stop health disparities. Some of them are called "Black Women's Health Imperative, Black Mama Matter Alliance, Sister Song, and Fertility for Colored Girls" (Beim, 2020)

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Data on black mothers is not up to date and it is hard to access, this is why the healthcare system has little education on how to treat black mothers and their babies.

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Racism still exits within the healthcare system but focusing on the American Board of Obstetrics and and Gynecology "medical school education should take lead to address disparities in maternal health" (Beim, 2020)

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The healthcare system treats black mothers differently "just the way that the staff, in terms of how they interact with me, the questions they asked about breastfeeding; didn't ask about if I wanted formula" (Seervai, 2019).

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Pregnant black women live a "more stressful live, which increases stress hormones that can have adverse effect on labor" (Seervai, 2019).

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Maternal mortality is high for black women "3-4 times likely to die from pregnancy-related complications" (Beim, 2020).

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It is hard for a black women to get access to birth control but some have "concerns or conspiracies with regard of different types of ways to keep black women from reproducing" (Bavis, 2019).

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Life-course perspectives "how health outcomes change over the life course" (Golash-Boza, 2018). Studies between 2000-2007 showed that "black women had higher breast cancer death rates than white women" (AHRQ,2012).

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Sterilization racism "attempt to control reproductive capacities of women of color" (Golash-Boza, 2018). When J. Marion Sims experimented on black enslaved women, several black women were left sterilized or even died.

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The most infamous medical practice on enslaved black women was from a gynecologist named J. Marion Sims. Sims would "experiment on enslaved black women in order to benefit white women" (Rothman, 2017).

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Henrietta Lacks was an African American women who in the 1950's had and died of cervical cancer. Doctors "kept a sample of her tissue without Lacks or her family's consent" (Rothman,2017).

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Medical disparities among African American women can be traced back to the "17th century" (Rothman, 2017)