Tell me about income and wealth disparity in America

I went to a panel tonight on Reimagining Public Health in NYC - A Discussion on the Racial and Wealth Gap and Health Equity

Me:

Can you write an essay about the connection between redlining, income and wealth gap, and health outcomes in the Black community? Highlight the disparity in maternal mortality race based upon race

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The connection between redlining, income and wealth gap, and health outcomes in the Black community is multifaceted and complex. Redlining, a discriminatory practice that involves denying financial services or access to housing based on race, has had a significant impact on the economic wellbeing of Black families. This, in turn, has contributed to the widening income and wealth gap between Black and white households, which has led to disparities in health outcomes.

Redlining began in the 1930s and was a federal government policy that allowed banks and other financial institutions to deny loans and insurance to people living in certain neighborhoods. These neighborhoods were typically populated by Black families and other minorities, and the practice was based on the assumption that these communities were risky investments. As a result, these neighborhoods were deprived of essential resources such as quality education, healthcare, and healthy food options.

The legacy of redlining has contributed to the income and wealth gap between Black and white households. According to a study by the Brookings Institution, the median wealth of white households is ten times that of Black households. This disparity is largely due to historical and ongoing discrimination that has limited Black families' access to education, employment, and housing opportunities.

The income and wealth gap has had a profound impact on the health outcomes of the Black community. Black Americans have higher rates of chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease, which are often linked to poverty and limited access to healthcare. They are also more likely to die from these diseases than white Americans.

One area where the impact of these disparities is particularly stark is maternal mortality. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black women are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women. This disparity cannot be explained by differences in income or education level, as it persists across all socioeconomic levels.

There are several reasons for this disparity, including the fact that Black women are more likely to experience complications during pregnancy, such as hypertension and pre-eclampsia. They are also more likely to receive substandard care during pregnancy and childbirth, including being ignored or dismissed when they report symptoms of distress. Studies have shown that implicit bias and stereotypes about Black women's pain and abilities to cope with childbirth are also factors.

To address these disparities, it is essential to address the root causes of redlining, income and wealth gap, and implicit bias in healthcare. Policies and initiatives that promote equitable access to education, employment, and affordable housing are essential. Additionally, healthcare providers must receive training to recognize and address implicit biases that may affect their care of Black patients. Finally, Black women must be empowered to advocate for their health and hold healthcare providers accountable for providing high-quality care.

In conclusion, the connection between redlining, income and wealth gap, and health outcomes in the Black community is a complex and multi-layered issue. The legacy of redlining has contributed to the income and wealth gap between Black and white households, which, in turn, has led to disparities in health outcomes, including maternal mortality. Addressing these disparities will require a comprehensive approach that involves addressing the root causes of redlining, income and wealth gap, and implicit bias in healthcare.

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Demystifying Data: Maternal Healthcare and Mortality Rates

Explore insights into maternal healthcare and mortality rates worldwide and in India. Understand the implications of poor maternal health on families and society.

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Greetings Family! You are invited to join us LIVE or VIRTUALLY on Saturday, October 28, 2023 from 9:30am - 5:00pm EST, for the 9th Annual Mother Wit Conference at Brooklyn College.

Our theme for this year is "ARTivism: The ReBIRTH of Black HUEmanity,"

and the event promises to be a day filled with thought-provoking dialogue, transformative experiences, inspiring visual and artistic presentations.

Since the conference's inception, attendees from across the nation have been invited to collectively and co-creatively explore how women, birthing people, their partners, families and communities, navigate the mental, emotional and spiritual impact of infertility, pregnancy loss, pre-term labor, infant and maternal morbidity and mortality, postpartum depression/psychosis and other forms of reproductive trauma.

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CDC Data Shows 38% Increase in U.S. Maternal Death Rate in 2021

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Maternal Death Rate in 2021: On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report showing that maternal death rates in the United States have increased by 38% for 2021. Based on data from the National Vital Statistics System, they suggested this rise could have been compounded by COVID-19 pandemic. Statistically significant increase from previous year (p <…

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‘No question’ that U.S. maternal mortality rate will rise post-Roe, experts say

..."U.S. maternal mortality rates are certain to rise as more states restrict abortion following the fall of Roe v. Wade, experts said, a sobering prediction as new statistics show the Covid pandemic’s already outsize effect on maternal deaths. 

With a higher rate than any other developed country, maternal mortality in the United States is astonishingly high, particularly for people of color. 

Statistics from before the pandemic showed that about 700 people were dying of pregnancy-related complications each year, with Black and American Indian/Alaska Native women about three times as likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause compared to white women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

An analysis published Tuesday in JAMA Network Open found that maternal deaths increased in 2020 by as much as 41% after the pandemic was declared. The increases were starkest for Hispanic and Black women."

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They hate our babies!!!! head hemorrhages are not normal...I’m sick of silly lies thinking we’re not educated. Posted @withrepost • @sacredbirthdoula ~BIRTH VIOLENCE IS REAL~ Why do you think doctors never want parents to record their birth? This is why! ☝🏾☝🏾 LIABILITY. LAWSUITS. The possibility of being held accountable with concrete proof of every NEGLIGENT and CORRUPT act against #birthing wombmen and families. Look at how they drop the #baby on her head and continue to rough her up like if nothing happened...wiping her #vernix off EXTREMELY HARD repeatedly like agents with no soul. This is a premature baby!!!! They had no idea this father was recording which is why they played it off like nothing happened. That father had a duty to continue recording the entire interaction between him and the doctor instead of cutting the phone off. He was also supposed to call the #police after confronting the doctor to report what took place, especially after being fully disrespected. This is how you build a case with full proof of #NEGLIGENCE to win #lawsuits. I've assisted in many. 🙏🏾 When a baby falls or is dropped under the supervision of parents (or lack of thereof) the first thing hospital employees do is call CPS on them to report negligence, child endangerment or to further investigate what took place. What do you see here!?? _ Ps. You CAN record your birth and don't ever let #doctors nor #hospital employees tell you otherwise. DM me for your #RightsOverMyBirthpackage if you'd like to become more knowledgeable about your #birth #rights. #doula #advocacy #recordeverything #knowyourrights #childbirth #maternalmortality #racism #amerikkka #midwife #hospitalbirth #newborn #twins #twinbirth #liability #birthsupport (at Elmwood Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/Byxc0a-nl7sfxep7AtY96tzNGoBxg2A_JnpF9I0/?igshid=17skcpigprt99

Not my graphic but I wanted to share this. The maternal mortality rate by country. The United States has a significantly higher mortality rate than other first world countries. This has MANY contributing factors but some are the prevalence of obstetric violence, rate of cesarean section, and rate of homebirth. The United States is currently 29th. That means 28 countries have a lower mortality rate than we do. Here’s a link to numbers by country of maternal mortality.

Women Dying in Childbirth:  Why Aren’t Doctors Held Accountable?

A woman in the United States today has a greater chance of dying in childbirth than her mother did in previous decades.  That’s the sorry state of maternal mortality in this country. During the pioneer days, women routinely died in childbirth in remote cabins.  You would think that those days are over, but they aren’t. Now women are dying in large urban hospitals, surrounded by what is touted as the best doctors and the most advanced medical equipment; more than 700 young mothers died in childbirth last year in the U.S. The data differs depending on which source you use.  Earlier this year a report by NPR and ProPublica used 2016 data from The Lancet that claims out of 100,000 women, 26.4 died in childbirth in America. Compare that to Sweden, which had 4.4, the UK , which had 9.2, or even Finland, which has the lowest death rate of 3.8 per 100,000.  Meanwhile, the CDC claims the U.S. 2014 rate was 18 deaths per 100,000.  But no matter what statistics are used, women are safer having their babies in any other industrialized country than they are in America, especially if the mother is a woman of color.

While grieving families and outraged patient safety advocates push for change, Congress did pass HR 1318 (Preventing Maternal Deaths Act of 2018). (This calls for a number of steps to track maternal deaths, such as making grants available for reviewing pregnancy and related deaths, establishing a review board to reviewing this information, and making this information public.) However, nothing in this bill called for state medical boards to hold doctors accountable for clearly preventable deaths. Often, doctors who are found responsible for the death of a woman in childbirth get no more than a slap on the wrist.

The Medical Board of California, for example, has been lenient with doctors whose patients have literally bled to death after childbirth. In the past six months two OB-GYNs have been given disciplines that were well below the Board’s own disciplinary guidelines. Take Dr. Arjang Naim, for example. Last fall, the Medical Board of California found Dr. Naim responsible for the death of Kira Johnson at Cedars Sinai Hospital in 2016. According to Board documents, Kira showed signs of internal bleeding within a short time after giving birth to her second son via C-section.  Investigators determined that Naim was grossly negligent when he failed to recognize symptoms of hemorrhaging. By the time Naim brought Kira into the operating room some ten hours after the C-section, there were more than three liters of blood in her abdomen, and her heart stopped.

Kira Johnson was not the only victim listed in the Board’s accusation for Naim. In the month before and after Kira’s death, two other women also nearly died under Naim’s care, including one whose heart also stopped on the operating table. Board documents also list three other women as harmed patients – a total of six victims. 

Despite the death, near misses, and negligent care, the Medical Board decided that only four years of probation were enough to discipline Dr. Naim. According to the Board’s own Disciplinary Guidelines, the minimum recommendation for one case of gross negligence is five years.  The Medical Board put no limits on Naim’s practice during the investigation into Kira’s death and harm to five other women, and there is no limit on his ability to continue delivering babies during his probation. Future patient will not be told of Naim’s discipline unless they look him up on the Medical Board’s website mbc.ca.gov or on 4patientsafety.org.

Then there was the case of Dr. Long-Dei Liu of Garden Grove, California. In 2014, a Chinese woman, Huanda Hong, traveled to Southern California to have her baby in the hope of having excellent medical care. Medical Board records show that Huanda began hemorrhaging shortly after the birth of a son via C-section. Dr. Liu left the hospital, thinking another doctor would cover, but investigators say he left no instructions indicating the transfer of care to another doctor, nor did he speak to anyone about Huanda’s condition.  She continued to hemorrhage, resulting in kidney failure and ultimately anoxic encephalopathy (brain damage due to lack of oxygen.) Her family decided to take her off life support a couple days later.

The Medical Board initially gave Dr. Liu five years probation for the death of Huanda Hong and harm to three other patients. However, Liu appealed that decision in January.  He claimed it was not his fault, but rather the fault of the nurses for not calling him about his patient. The panel evidently agreed with Liu, and lowered his probation to just 35 months – less than three years.  This probation time is not even an option mentioned in the Board’s Guidelines.  The Hong family sued Garden Grove Hospital and Dr. Liu, and received hefty settlements for Huanda’s death; Liu also lost his privileges at the hospital, most likely because the health department fined the hospital $75,000.   However, he is still free to deliver babies at other hospitals.

Given these two lenient disciplines, it will be interesting to see what the Medical Board does with the dual complaints against Drs. Audrey Toda and Linda Degusta. Both doctors have accusations pending for the bleeding death of a San Leandro woman after a c-section.  What is surprising about this case is that their patient died in 2013 – and the Medical Board has taken no action against either doctor until just recently. Under the law, Board complaints have a statute of limitations of seven years, which includes the time to investigate.  The accusation against Toda was released last July while Degusta’s was just posted in late March.  According to the Board’s own timeline, a complaint of this nature would be thrown out due to lack of time. However, someone has decided that after all these years, it was time to look into this unnamed woman’s death. Both Toda and Degusta have been practicing and delivering babies unfettered for the past six years, despite the catastrophic event that took the life of a young mother.

It’s time that our federal and state legislators make medical boards responsible when preventable maternal deaths occur – and that they in turn hold the doctors accountable. Everyone, state boards and legislators, should stop wringing their hands over this devastating issue of maternal mortality and actually decide to take action. This country owes young mothers and their families the best of care and they deserve better than what they’re getting. If we don’t end this alarming increase in maternal mortality now through accountability, more young mothers will die in childbirth.

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New Jersey (the state in which I practice) ranks #5 and #10 among states with the worst maternal mortality and morbidity rates, respectively. We need to do better. Source: @usatoday #midwife #midwifery #midwifical #midwives #midwifelife #midwivesrock #feministmidwife #midwiferycare #maternalhealth #maternalmortality #safepregnancy #womenshealthmatters

TONIGHT: We are excited to have Clarivel Ruiz (@founder.Dominicanslovehaitians) on IG Live with one of our founders Shawnee Benton Gibson (@ShawneetheHealer) on September 27, 2023 at 8PM EST.

Clarivel Ruiz is on a mission to decolonize and unravel the racialized framework we live in to heal wounds created by eurocentrism.

Join us for an introspective transformative conversation,

"Rebirthing in Color".

Save the date: September 27,2023 at 8pm EST.

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Don't miss out on registering for our upcoming event! In-Person seating is limited!

Come out on October 28, 2023 for the 9th Annual Mother Wit Conference

The conference is Virtual & Live at Brooklyn College

Ingersoll Hall from 9:30am to 5:00pm

Our Theme Is “ARTivism: The ReBirth of Black HueManity”

It will be a Full Day of Ceremony, Visual & Performing Arts, Workshops, Panels and much more...

REGISTER TODAY!!

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Dr. Nakeitra Burse, an alum of Jackson State University ’s School of Public Health, will be featured at 10 p.m. (CDT) tonight on BET Network’s “Disrupt and Dismantle,” with the episode focusing on maternal mortality. #BET #HBCULove #HBCUNews #JacksonStateUniversity #MaternalMortality #publichealth

you gotta give credit when it’s due. birthing another being is not light work, no matter how easy a mama can make it look. your body goes through some thangs—major thangs, and having a support system that understands and acknowledges that, is the icing on the cake for a mama that just endured the journey through childbirth. support black women—in all ways. 📸: @imanshumpert #blackhomebirther #homebirth #birthworker #blackhomebirth #birthadvocate #homebirthadvocate #changingthenarrative #maternalhealthadvocate #blackmaternalhealthcrisis #birthstory #blackbirthstories #hireablackbirthworker #tribeofsunspodcast #teyanataylor #blackmotherhood #blackbabas #maternalmortality #blackmamasmatter #blackmamas #birthdisparities #birthoutcomes #informedconsent #postpartumdoula #blackdoula #birthyourway #saveoursisters #saveourselves https://www.instagram.com/p/CE6wVBlALgj/?igshid=j5lblgu9mlig