![]() ![]() ![]() The study was based on a sample of 41.1 million single, first births across the country, including 26.4 million of White women, 6.2 million of Black women and 8.4 million Latinas. “That’s incredibly worrisome because it’s effectively institutional level racism manifesting down in these obstetric clinical practices,” he added. “There are norms, assessments, behaviors and institutional practices that might be taking their cues from the White population and then being sort of indiscriminately applied to the Black and Latina childbearing population,” Ryan Masters, one of the study’s authors and an associate professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, said in a statement. When comparing the experiences of Black, Latina and White women in labor, researchers found all the three groups had similar increased rates of induced labor but said the decisions about the women’s care were likely only driven by how White pregnant women were treated. The study, published Wednesday in the American Sociological Association’s Journal of Health and Social Behavior, suggests systemic racism may be shaping obstetric care in the United States.Īn analysis of more than 40 million birth records from the National Vital Statistics Systems showed that births in the US in which labor was induced nearly tripled between 19, the study says. ![]() A new study by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder found that Black and Latina mothers in the US may have been induced into labor based on the needs of White pregnant women and not their own. ![]()
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