Black Babies Are Still Dying—And America Let It Happen : usa

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

don't worry, all those pro life people that are now in power will for sure do something to protect the unborn...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks for this article. It's great for finding people to block!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

There are localized efforts to remediate this, https://www.mamacertified.org/ for example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

*babies and adults of all races

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but this article is pointing out that black babies are dying at double the rate of white babies.

I agree all lives matter but in a post trying to draw attention to the racial inequality issue, saying that is not constructive. In fact it can be seen as hand waving away the issue being discussed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

then why is tge article titled that? clickbait or disinformation?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What about it do you consider to be inaccurate or "clickbait"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it excludes all races except blacks

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't explicitly exclude them. It just focuses on black babies because that's the topic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

the term "Black Babies" explicitly and litterally excludes all races and age groups except black babies.

I can't tell if people who argue with this truly don't understand english, or are just being intentionally stupid and difficult.

[+] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Racist policies such as redlining which can cause greater exposure to things such as lead (for one single example) can absolutely impact generational health development. So, yes, racism can cause circulatory disease.

I think you have the wrong platform; this is Lemmy, not an alt. right shithole.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There are so many factors to consider, but the main things one should research in terms of disparate health outcomes are: Income, access to healthy food, access to a healthy environment (again see income and housing disparities,) and access to medical care (see income again as well as bias in healthcare that affects outcomes.)

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-273.pdf

https://www.nrdc.org/bio/nina-sevilla/food-apartheid-racialized-access-healthy-affordable-food

https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2014/spring/racial-food-deserts/

https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/racial-disparities-in-maternal-and-infant-health-current-status-and-efforts-to-address-them/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4638275/

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/07/more-black-americans-die-from-effects-of-air-pollution.html

https://www.lung.org/clean-air/outdoors/who-is-at-risk/disparities

Black people are more likely to be impoverished. This means they have fewer choices and access issues when it comes to housing. They are more likely to live in areas that are affected by different types of pollution; which have long term health impacts. They have a harder time accessing healthy food because there are less likely to be decent grocery stores in their communities. If you read the article, you know that black babies are more likely to die of perinatal conditions, which are health conditions before, or right after birth, (see my point about access to healthcare and disparity of health outcomes based on race.)

While racism that causes these disparities isn't overt, it's baked in beneath all of these complex factors. Racism is absolutely a factor, it's systemic racism.

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