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Posted by Darlene Kaskie on April 29th, 2022
Posted in: NNLM Reading Club
The CDC is focused on addressing a startling statistic: Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women. Differences in healthcare quality, underlying chronic health conditions, structural racism, and implicit bias contribute to this disparity. Social determinants of health, which are defined by the CDC as, “conditions in the places where people live, learn, work, and play that affect a wide range of health risks and outcomes,” prevent many people from racial and ethnic minority groups from having fair opportunities for economic, physical, and emotional health and contribute to untoward pregnancy outcomes for Black mothers and other people of color. Because many of these outcomes are preventable, this month the NNLM Reading Club shines a light on the importance of Caring for Black Mothers.
The NNLM Reading Club has selected three helpful books to start the conversation:
We encourage you to learn more about Caring for Black Mothers by reading one of these books and discussing it in your book club. Visit NNLM Reading Club: Caring for Black Mothers to get started.