Black women have 80% higher risk of preterm birth between 32 and 33 weeks of pregnancy if a Black person who lives in their neighborhood is killed by police during the pregnancy, according to a study by researchers at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley.
Preterm birth is a leading cause of infant deaths and illness in the U.S. yet its underlying molecular causes remain largely unclear. About 40 to 50% of preterm births, defined as births before 37 weeks of pregnancy, are estimated to be "idiopathic," meaning they arise from unexplained or spontaneous labor.
A team of UC Davis Health scientists is working to identify factors that could predict brachial plexus birth injury (BPBI), the leading cause of infants'.
“Any specialty group that has a ratio of less than three full-time service equivalent per 100,000 population is currently considered to be in acute shortage and is automatically classified as DWS,” the Federal Health department states.
It is different to a Distribution Priority Area DPA for GPs, which is “based on gender and age demographics, and the socio-economic status of patients living in an area.”
A Federal Health Department spokeswoman said the DWS of the Gladstone region would be reassessed in July.
“The Districts of Workforce Shortage for specialists status is not related to or impacted by the DPA status of a region,” the spokeswoman said.
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