People of strong DNA from the African Continent, generally are better equipped in their physical strength, aren’t MOST of the large heavy, strong players in the NFL of the epidermis that is darker. Sometimes when women do drugs, eat improperly, or get very obese, yeah, it takes a toll on the little human growing in the womb. Is this the fault of people with a lighter epidermis? I wonder if they did a random drug check in N.J, if the lighter epidermis females have a lower drug consumption, tobacco and alcohol and heavy, heavy to obstruct blood vessels etc. I think it is a CULTURAL problem, and each community needs to work to fix it’s problems.
Jimmy the Greek? Is that you?
Married parents in a stable household does miracles for the quality of life of everyone inside. Of course if you’re gonna insist on Hood-Ratting around and Hoochie-Mamma drama, then yep. Yo life be ratchet.
It ABSOLUTELY is a cultural problem.
Look at the great human advances, like railroads and telephones etc., for the last 1,000 years and ask how many of these were achieved by black Africans? I can't think of a single one, but a correction is welcome.
Blacks have a 50% obesity rate. That alone contributes to such health problems.
Childbirth is a risky endeavor.. hell it was the leading cause of death of women of childbearing age up until I believe sometime in the 19th or 20th centuries.
The discrepancy in death rates during child birth is not invented.
I don’t know the research, but there is clear evidence of income affecting outcomes. I would like to see the statistics for the races across all incomes, apples to apples. If you are poor, you are less likely to get adequate care before and after birth, this is true of all races.
Given African American women are about 13% of the female population, and whites are about 57% of the female population. Almost 24% of Black women live in poverty, and around 6% of white women live in poverty. Based on poverty statistics alone, when you evenly weight the cohorts, if poverty is a cause you would expect around a 4 to 1 difference between whites and black women... assuming of course birth rates are the same among all income groups, which we know is not true, but to keep the numbers simple, we’ll run with it for now.
Still looking but most recent numbers I have found show black women are 2.4 times more likely to die from childbirth than white women, but this number isn’t broken down by income, this is overall.
The other thing to keep in mind here, and is that asa whole you are talking about a cause of death that equated to around 750 deaths total, across all races, in 2019 (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality-2021/maternal-mortality-2021.htm)
Until I can find an income distribution chart comparing mortality rates per 100,000 births across races.. (and I assume it exists, just haven’t seen it) its hard to really even see how bad this disparity truly is.
If this is just a statistical aberration because poor whites and poor blacks die from child birth at similar rates, but because as a percentage more black women are poor than white women it skews the results when comparing the overall numbers.
I am not saying there are numbers showing this, I just haven’t personally seen them. I suspect highly, that income is the single biggest factor in this, not racism within the health care community affecting care.
I’ll also be honest, given this is something has causes so few deaths overall in the US every year, its shows you just how privileged we are to live in the times we do. We have the resources to spend on looking at a something that kills 750 people a year, in a nation of 330,000,000 people.