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Anna Maria Barry-Jester

Racism a strong factor in Black women’s high rate of premature births, study finds

Black women are about 1.6 times as likely as white women to give birth more than three weeks before their due date.
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester
Dr. Paula Braveman, director of the Center on Social Disparities in Health at the University of California-San Francisco, says her latest research revealed an “astounding” level of evidence that racism is a decisive “upstream” cause of higher rates of preterm birth among Black women. (Nancy Rothstein)
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Racism a strong factor in Black women’s high rate of premature births, study finds

Black women are about 1.6 times as likely as white women to give birth more than three weeks before their due date.
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester
Dr. Paula Braveman, director of the Center on Social Disparities in Health at the University of California-San Francisco, says her latest research revealed an “astounding” level of evidence that racism is a decisive “upstream” cause of higher rates of preterm birth among Black women. (Nancy Rothstein)
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