Study Finds That Black Babies Are Three Times More Likely To Die When Cared For By White Doctors

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Researchers from George Mason University spent thirteen years analyzing 1.8 million hospital births in the state of Florida and have published the troubling results of their study: Black babies are three times more likely to die when they are cared for by white doctors. The mortality rate of Black babies decreases by 39% to 58% when Black babies are cared for by Black doctors.

This latest study offers more evidence to what Black mothers have been trying to tell the rest of us for years: pregnant Black women and their children are often less safe — and even at greater risk of dying — when they are cared for in hospitals by white doctors.

Co-author Rachel Hardeman explained the findings on Twitter:

“Our study provides the first evidence that the Black-White newborn mortality gap is smaller when Black MDs provide care for Black newborns than when White MDs do, lending support to research examining the importance of racial concordance in addressing health care inequities.”

Source : https://www.littlethings.com/black-babies-more-likely-death/

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