In 2017–2019, the March of Dimes convened a workgroup with biomedical, clinical, and
epidemiologic expertise to review knowledge of the causes of the persistent Black-White …

The authors review the available empirical evidence from population-based studies of the
association between perceptions of racial/ethnic discrimination and health. This research …

In this article, I analyze the birth stories of Black women living in the United States. Their birth
stories describe various forms of racism during medical encounters while they were …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Current assessments of adverse childhood experiences
(ACEs) may not adequately encompass the breadth of adversity to which low-income urban …

In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors
Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the …

This paper reviews 138 empirical quantitative population-based studies of self-reported
racism and health. These studies show an association between self-reported racism and ill …

Introduction Racial discrimination has been consistently linked to various health outcomes
and health disparities, including studies associating racial discrimination with patterns of …

Although individual behaviors have not been proven to have a strong influence on the risk of
preterm birth, consistent evidence suggests that a constellation of favorable lifestyle factors …

Abstract Background: In the United States, Black infants have significantly worse birth
outcomes than do White infants. The cause of these persisting racial disparities remains …

Infant mortality (IM) and birth outcomes, key population health indicators, have lifelong
implications for individuals, and are unequally distributed globally. Even among western …