August 8

Racist Bastards: Black Women Get Less Pre-Natal Care Than others

Posted by Shakeer

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Black pregnant women living in urban areas are less likely to get the proper prenatal care than White women, according to a new study that appears in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.Researchers interviewed nearly 300 Black women who were hospitalized in

Washington, D.C., after giving birth, in 1996 and 1997 to assess when they began parental care visits, how often they kept appointments and what stopped them from going to them. Sixty percent of the women received “inadequate” because they only started receiving care after the fourth month of pregnancy or they kept 50 percent of their visits.Research shows that the earlier a woman starts prenatal care, the more likely they will have higher-birth-weight babies. 

The lead author of the research, Allan Johnson, associate dean in the College of Pharmacy at Howard University suggests that more funds be invested in the federal WIC program because it would “lead to earlier and more frequent” prenatal care.

We need to be on top of this as a community.  One way to ensure that the future is bright for the next generations is to ensure that they start off healthy and on the same footing as their peers.

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