Confronting The Nation’s Racial Health Disparities in Maternal Health
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Last month, Blue Cross Blue Shield Association announced its National Health Equity Strategy as part of its ongoing efforts to improve the health of America. Furthermore, the strategy was put in place as a means to confront the nation’s crisis in racial health disparities. In response to the findings from a recent Blue Cross Blue Shield, The Health of America Report
“There is an urgent maternal health crisis in our country,” said Kim Keck, president and CEO of BCBSA. “It is unconscionable that women of color face a greater risk of childbirth complications compared to white women. We must confront health disparities across the board to change the trajectory.”
Study to examine the effect of police violence on the birth outcomes for Black infants
Associate Professor Rachel Hardeman has launched a first-of-its-kind, five-year study to investigate the association between racialized police violence and the occurrence of preterm birth and low birth weight among Black infants.
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April 14, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (04/14/21) Black women in the U.S. are twice as likely to experience a preterm birth, a low birth weight infant, or the death of a child before age one compared to white women. This racialized pattern of adverse reproductive outcomes has endured for as far back as scientists are able to study. The intractability of this problem suggests the root cause is structural racism the ways in which societies foster discrimination by reinforcing inequitable systems that in turn reinforce discriminatory beliefs, values, and distribution of resources. University of Minnesota School of Public Health Associate Professor Rache
U of M gets $5M donation for new center to address racial inequality in healthcare
Using a donation from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, the School of Public Health will work to address racial disparities in healthcare.
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The University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health will establish a new center to address racial inequality in healthcare using a donation from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.
On Wednesday, the school announced Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota had donated $5 million to get the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity off the ground.
University associate professor and Blue Cross Endowed Professor of Health and Racial Equity Rachael Hardeman will serve as the center’s founding director. Hardeman started her career in 2014 and has since focused on health equity and reproductive health.