Topic: African American Woman and birth outcomes

Article 1: Adverse Birth Outcomes in African American Women: The Social Context of Persistent Reproductive Disadvantage.
Results:
AA women have highest rate of

• Infant death
• Preterm birth
• Low birthweight

Method:
Looked into

• Racism
• Racial desparities 
• Stress

Result:

Being black is a genetic factor for higher risk pregnancies.  But for some reason black immigrant women have better outcomes. It was also learned that racial bias is institutuonlized and stress and racisim is linked, which causes the different birth outcomes.

**This article relates to my topic by showing evidence that AA woman face different outcomes when becoming pregnant.

Dominguez, T. P. (2010;2011;). Adverse birth outcomes in african american women: The social context of persistent reproductive disadvantage. Social Work in Public Health, 26(1), 3-16. doi:10.1080/1091135090298688

Article 2:

Racial Disparities in Preterm Birth 

Results:

Culhane, J. F., & Goldenberg, R. L. (2011). Racial disparities in preterm birth. Seminars in Perinatology, 35(4), 234-239. doi:10.1053/j.semperi.2011.02.020