Eve Ewing’s “Affirmation”
Audre Lorde’s “A Woman Speaks”
Alice Walker’s “The Nature of This Flower is to Bloom”
Podcasts
NATAL: A docuseries about having a baby while Black in the United States
Birth Stories in Color
Bias
MFM survey of providers in which 29% somewhat or strongly agree that bias affects how they care for patients
Limited impact of implicit bias training
Doulas
Emerald Doula group arranges feedback to providers with problematic behaviors
Rebecca Polston
Demetra Sereki
Impact on adverse pregnancy outcomes and breast or chestfeeding
Historical and ethnographic scholarship
Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens’ Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Dr. Khiara Bridges’ Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization
Dr. Dorothy Roberts’ Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Dr. John Hoberman’s Black & Blue
Race-based medicine
World Health Organization’s recommendations on pelvimetry
Obstetrics & Gynecology article on pelvis MRIs and possible link to outcome disparities
VBAC calculator criticism
Statistical sources:
CDC 2019 Vital Signs report
Severe Maternal Morbidity
Race, ethnicity, and nativity differentials in pregnancy-related mortality in the United States
Washington State 2019 maternal death review
Exploration of causality
Failure to rescue, including in postpartum hemorrhage
Impact of delivery outside the hospital
Personally-mediated racism
Exposure to low socioeconomic status while in utero
Impact of perceived discrimination
Review of social determinants of health impact on prenatal care utilization and maternal outcomes
Camara Jones’ articles on social determinants of equity, on not exploring the 'why' of disparities
General impact of structural racism on health disparities
Median wealth differentials
Health impacts of mass incarceration
Considering birth setting: systematic review 2018, systematic review 2019, UK guidelines by diagnosis for delivery location
Systemic interventions
Centering voices of color
SPEAK UP campaign from Institute for Perinatal Quality Improvement
AIM Patient Safety Bundles from the Council on Patient Safety in Women’s Health Care, including bundle targeting disparities
Maternal Early Warning System from the Council on Patient Safety in Women’s Health Care
Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine’s Call to Action, education subcommittee's report, and AJOG's 5 year report card
Evidence for safety bundles, including CMQCC’s VTE toolkit
California’s broad care collaborative to create change at scale
Importance and examples of maternal mortality review panel that recommend system interventions
Importance of simulation training
Use of quality improvement metrics and approaches
Strengthening the postpartum transition of care, creating a new postpartum paradigm
Role for family medicine physicians
Need for paid maternity leave
Working together to get patients to the appropriate level of care
Addressing anemia to reduce disparities
Policy statements
ACOG’s Committee Opinion on disparities
Letter from the AAFP
Momnibus overview
