Black Babies In The US Are THREE TIMES More Likely To Die In Hospital Than White Children When Cared For By A White Doctor, Study Finds
• Infant mortality is far higher among US-born black babies than white babies
• A George Washington University study of 1.8 million births in Florida found marked disparities based on the doctor caring for each [size=10pt]newborn
• Babies cared for by black doctors were between 39 and 58% less likely to die than those cared for by white doctors
By NATALIE RAHHAL US HEALTH EDITOR

PUBLISHED: 23:07, 17 August 2020 | UPDATED: 23:08, 17 August 2020

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Black babies in the US are up to three times more likely to die in the days and weeks following their births compared to white babies, a new study finds.

But their survival odds vary drastically depending on who is in charge of their medical care.

When black babies were cared for by black doctors, their mortality rate fell by 39 to 58 percent, according to George Mason University research.

The damning report suggests that black doctors take better care of black babies and are just as capable when looking after white newborns - yet the overwhelming majority of doctors are white, heightening the challenge of improving care for black infants in the US.


An analysis of data on 1.8 million live births in Florida found that black babies were three times more likely to die as newborns if they were cared for by white doctors (file)

The state of maternal-fetal mortality in the US is dismal, statistically speaking, when compared to other comparably wealthy nations.

In 2018 - the most recent year for which there is complete data - 3.5 out of every 1,000 babies born died within 28 days of birth.

That year, 21,467 newborns died.

Far more babies are born in poor health in the US than in the UK or Scandinavian countries, making their survival odds lower from their first breaths.

And black families lose their newborn children at far higher rates than do white families in the US.

Like any racial health disparity, the 'why' is complicated.

Birth weight is a key indicator of a baby's health, and black babies are far more likely to be born underweight compared to white babies.

Between 2016 and 2018, 13.3 percent of black newborns had low birth weights.

That's nearly double the rate among white babies (7.1 percent), and higher than the rates for Asian/Pacific Islanders (8.4 percent) or American Indian/Alaskan Natives (8.1 percent).

Failure to thrive is more common among these babies, but it's not just these measures of health at birth that predict survival but where they're born and, according to the new study, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), by whom they are cared for.

The researchers analyzed records on 1.8 million hospital births in Florida between 1992 and 2015.

At baseline, 1,090 out of every 100,000 black babies born died within the first 28 days of life.

That was more than twice the death rate among white babies: 490 per 100,000.

The team attributed this shocking disparity to higher rates of eclampsia and preeclampsia (potentially dangerous high blood sugar during pregnancy) among the mothers while they were pregnant, higher rates of preterm delivery, economic disadvantage and racial bias.

'In fact, mortality among Black infants outstrips medical inequalities in many other health domains,' the researchers wrote.

The factor their study focused on was the race of the doctors caring for the newborns.

They found that in hospitals where more black babies were born but the majority of doctors were white, the mortality for those babies was 56 percent higher than in hospitals where more doctors were black.

'For families giving birth to a Black baby, the desire to minimize risk and seek care from a Black physician would be understandable,' the study authors wrote.

'However, the disproportionately White physician workforce makes this untenable because there are too few Black physicians to service the entire population.'

Their findings come with the caveat that 'physician performance' was wildly inconsistent, meaning that selecting a doctor based on race alone would not be enough to ensure a newborn's survival.

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These black babies' lives don't matter to the BLM movement because they don't fit into the communist marxist narrative.

Another protest loading "Black babies lives matters"

phrancys001:
Another protest loading "Black babies lives matters"

Lol, BBLM.

So this study is trying to say that white doctors still practice racism on baby that knows nothing about the environment they are born in

#BlackBabiesLivesMatters

phrancys001:


Another protest loading "Black babies lives matters"

You should know by now that these black lives don't matter to the BLM organisation.

Unnerve:


Lol, BBLM.

DICKstractor:


So this study is trying to say that white doctors still practice racism on baby that knows nothing about the environment they are born in

#BlackBabiesLivesMatters

See this thread on EBLM (Every Black Life Matters) --> https://www.nairaland.com/6054258/every-black-life-matters-eblm

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OLAADEGBU:

See this thread on EBLM (Every Black Life Matters) --> https://www.nairaland.com/6054258/every-black-life-matters-eblm

I've seen the thread before, even made a comment on it.

Unnerve:


I've seen the thread before, even made a comment on it.

Way to go!

One can only imagine what they do to adults and the elderly whose lives are at the mercies of some racists health practitioners.

Then black Doctors are ILLITERATES. They should come to NIGERIA to learn.

orisa37:


Then black Doctors are ILLITERATES. They should come to NIGERIA to learn.

Are you saying black doctors should also learn how to kill like their white counterparts?

Black Babies In The US Are THREE TIMES More Likely To Die In Hospital Than White Children When Cared For By A White Doctor, Study Finds

OLAADEGBU:
Black Babies In The US Are THREE TIMES More Likely To Die In Hospital Than White Children When Cared For By A White Doctor, Study Finds

has your account also been used for spamming too?

OLAADEGBU:


These black babies' lives don't matter to the BLM movement because they don't fit into the communist marxist narrative.

Your post tells us about the racism going on and that is exactly why BLM exists.
I am suprised the message in the article you posted flew over your head.

AIlahuAkbar:


has your account also been used for spamming too?

You might be the culprit.

OLAADEGBU:


You might be the culprit.

so you're the one responsible for all these.
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AIlahuAkbar:


so you're the one responsible for all these.
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TDS is real.

"When black babies were cared for by black doctors, their mortality rate fell by 39 to 58 percent, according to George Mason University research"

Here is the major major lie with this. New born black babies are not cared for be a black doctor exclusively. Initially the family could meet with a black doctor, but an infant in a hospital is cared for by multiple Doctors and Nurses of all kinds of backgrounds.

Their racist democrat overlords have no need to protect these young lives because they need their blood to stay young and use their body parts in cosmetics to keep them alive and beautiful.

OLAADEGBU:


These black babies' lives don't matter to the BLM movement because they don't fit into the communist marxist narrative.

It is!

OLAADEGBU:


TDS is real.

DCatt:


Their racist democrat overlords have no need to protect these young lives because they need their blood to stay young and use their body parts in cosmetics to keep them alive and beautiful.

This is serious!

I posted some of Clinton's emails 3 years ago where she said she would be sacrificing rabbit foot to moloch in the backyard because she had a cold. In pedovore world according to FBI's pedophile code world rabbit means a baby girl. You will soon see more of that in the information coming out soon. They have been trying to kill Jullian Assange who has more on this and even show the video of him sitting in his room.

OLAADEGBU:


This is serious!

DCatt:


I posted some of Clinton's emails 3 years ago where she said she would be sacrificing rabbit foot to moloch in the backyard because she had a cold. In pedovore world according to FBI's pedophile code world rabbit means a baby girl. You will soon see more of that in the information coming out soon. They have been trying to kill Jullian Assange who has more on this and even show the video of him sitting in his room.

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