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Source: CNN
Black newborns 3 times more likely to die when looked after by White doctors
By Rob Picheta, CNN | August 18, 2020
In the United States, racial disparities in human health can impact even the first hours of a person's life, according to new research.
(CNN) Black newborn babies in the United States are more likely to survive childbirth if they are cared for by Black doctors, but three times more likely to die when looked after by White doctors, a study has found.
The mortality rate of Black newborns shrunk by between 39% and 58% when Black physicians took charge of the birth, according to the research, which laid bare how shocking racial disparities in human health can affect even the first hours of a person's life.
By contrast, the mortality rate for White babies was largely unaffected by the doctor's race. The findings support previous research, which has shown that, while infant mortality rates have fallen in recent decades, Black children remain significantly more likely to die early than their White counterparts.
Researchers from George Mason University analyzed data capturing 1.8 million hospital births in Florida between 1992 and 2015 for the new study, which was published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, also known as PNAS.
When cared for by White physicians, Black newborns were about three times more likely to die in the hospital than White newborns, the researchers found.
"Strikingly, these effects appear to manifest more strongly in more complicated cases, and when hospitals deliver more Black newborns," the authors wrote. "The findings suggest that Black physicians outperform their White colleagues when caring for Black newborns."
The authors did not speculate about the reasons behind the trend, but wrote: "Taken with this work, it gives warrant for hospitals and other care organizations to invest in efforts to reduce such biases and explore their connection to institutional racism."
"Reducing racial disparities in newborn mortality will also require raising awareness among physicians, nurses, and hospital administrators about the prevalence of racial and ethnic disparities," the researchers added.
Read more at the CNN link.
________Black babies born in the US are more likely to survive childbirth if they are cared for by Black doctors - but significantly more likely to die when they're looked after by White doctors.— Rob Picheta (@robpicheta) August 19, 2020
A shocking finding from a new study on infant mortality: https://t.co/NYQXbiNZu9
Ed.'s note: This is a very important related subject that needs far larger readership and understanding recently put out by the NOI Research Group. After reading this the idea of "burning CNN down" might take on a little more meaning. Not in the real sense but in the sense that CNN needs to be shutdown, boycotted and censored by all Americans including blacks who are aware of what is going on here.
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