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Infant mortality rate (view source)
Revision as of 14:31, October 19, 2024
, 14:31, October 19, 2024→Black/White disparity: half as many black babies die with Black doctors
==Black/White disparity==
==Black/White disparity==
In the United States, black babies die about twice as often as white babies, leading to speculation that the cause is due somehow to racism. A study in 2020 found that [[black babies]] attended by black doctors had better survival outcomes than when attended by white doctors. This finding got a lot of media attention, and even a Supreme Court justice made a comment.
In the United States, black babies die about twice as often as white babies, leading to speculation that the cause is due somehow to racism. A study in 2020 found that [[black babies]] attended by black doctors had better survival outcomes than when attended by white doctors.
*Findings suggest that when Black newborns are cared for by Black physicians, the mortality penalty they suffer, as compared with White infants, is halved.<ref>[https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1913405117 Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns], PNAS</ref>
This finding got a lot of media attention, and even a Supreme Court justice made a comment.
Other researchers looking at the same data rebutted that conclusion.<ref>[https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2415159121] Do Black Doctors Save More Babies?]</ref>
Other researchers looking at the same data rebutted that conclusion.<ref>[https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2415159121] Do Black Doctors Save More Babies?]</ref>