Health Equity: “High quality healthcare before, during and after birth” ft. Latoya Hill, KFF.

Presented under KZbin’s Health Equity Incubator (THE-IQ), a program to tackle health equity through information quality, this video series is produced by KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) with The Loveland Foundation, National Birth Equity Collaborative and Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine. Through the voices of the partner organizations, the videos elevate a conversation about health equity and build understanding about the factors that impact health and well-being.
KFF is an endowed, nonprofit organization filling the need for trusted, independent information on national health issues; no affiliation to Kaiser Permanente.
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Transcript:
So some of the key disparities we see in maternal and reproductive health include maternal mortality, which is the death of a woman either during childbirth or during pregnancy and up to a year after pregnancy. And when we look at maternal mortality, what we see is that ***Black and indigenous women are three to four times more likely to die than White women. We also see increased rates of severe maternal morbidity. The U.S. has some, has some of the highest rates of severe maternal morbidity. These rates have doubled over the past two decades, and particularly these cases are disproportionately found among Black women. We call these near misses cause they're usually life-threatening complications during childbirth and pregnancy that can have short-term and long-term consequences to the health of the woman. We also see disparities in risk factors for birth. These are things like preterm birth, low birth weight and late or no pre-term care. Women of color tend to have higher rates across these measures. And so you gotta wonder what's going on here and what we see is it's usually a lack of limited access to healthcare, supportive healthcare, high-quality healthcare before, during and after childbirth.