Racial Disparities in Maternal Health

The PedsDocTalk Podcast: Child Health, Development & Parenting—From a Pediatrician Mom

Dr. Mona Amin

Medicine, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

In honor of Black Maternal Health Week, I welcome Dr. Jasmine Johnson (@mrsmommymd on Instagram). a Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellow with a focus on women’s health disparities. Her research looks at the disparities that exist for Black women in pregnancy, labor and delivery. Systemic Racism is a reality and healthcare plays a huge part of this. Racism and bias can play a huge roll in the outcomes of Black mothers. In this episode we discuss: 1. Why it's important that we discuss systemic racism as it relates to healthcare. 2. Research in racism and pregnancy outcomes. 3. Breastfeeding statistics for Black women compared to non-Black women. 4. How systemic racism put Black women, especially Black pregnant women, at a disadvantage. 5. Why systemic racism effects us all. 6. What we can do to cause change. Further reading: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6834a3.htm https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/racial-disparities-persist-for-breastfeeding-moms-heres-why https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html Check out my weekly videos on child health & development by ⁠⁠subscribing to PedsDocTalk on YouTube⁠⁠. Get trusted pediatric advice, relatable parenting insights, and evidence-based tips delivered straight to your inbox—join thousands of parents who rely on the PDT newsletter to stay informed, supported, and confident. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! And don’t forget to follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@pedsdoctalkpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Instagram—our new space just for parents looking for real talk and real support. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠PedsDocTalk Podcast Sponsorships⁠⁠⁠⁠ page of the website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to episode 64, racial disparities in maternal health. Welcome to this week's episode where I welcome Dr Jasmine Johnson who is a
0:17.8	maternal fetal medicine fellow with a focus on women's health
0:20.9	disparities. She is on Instagram as Mrs. Mommy MD which all
0:24.9	attached to the show notes and we're talking about health disparities in
0:28.3	black women in America. Thank you so much for joining us today Jasmine.
0:31.7	Thank you so much for having me such an important topic so thanks. It is a very important topic and I was really excited to have you on because I feel like people don't really understand the reasons why and maybe what we can do as physicians in the
0:45.8	medical community and also as a society to help actually cause change.
0:50.0	So this is education, but it's also a conversation on, well, where do we go from here?
0:54.4	And I know you do a lot of research in women's health disparities, so I'm just so glad we could connect.
0:58.8	Awesome, me too.
0:59.8	Me too.
1:00.8	I have had so much to share so I'm excited.
1:03.0	Yeah, so tell me more about your research and what you do as a maternal fetal medicine fellow.
1:09.0	Yeah, so as a maternal fetal medicine doctor, I'm a doctor who takes care of birthing people with pregnancy
1:14.7	so that could be a high-risk condition that someone brings to a pregnancy or develops during
1:20.1	pregnancy or a high-risk condition that's affecting their fetus.
1:23.5	So birth defects, multiples, different anomalies, we are the doctors that diagnose those things
1:29.7	and a lot of times treat them.
1:31.1	And so that is kind of my clinical side, but then I also like to think of
1:35.0	myself as a bit of a physician activist, kind of self-proclaimed. But in my work as a fellow,
1:41.1	I've been able to have a lot more dedicated research time.
1:44.0	And so my research focus is particularly centered around the outcomes of black women,
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