DR. PAULA BRAVEMAN, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER ON SOCIAL DISPARITIES IN HEALTH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SAN FRANCISCO, SAYS HER LATEST RESEARCH REVEALED AN “ASTOUNDING” LEVEL OF EVIDENCE THAT RACISM IS A DECISIVE “UPSTREAM” CAUSE OF HIGHER RATES OF PRETERM BIRTH AMONG BLACK WOMEN./NANCY ROTHSTEIN/KHN
Black women are about 1.6 times as likely as whites to give birth more than three weeks before the due date — a statistic with costly health consequences.
Oct 5, 2021
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Miché Aaron struggled in the doctoral program until she was diagnosed with ADHD but is now thriving academically./Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University
Already subject to unique discrimination at the intersection of gender and race, Black women with ADHD often remain undiagnosed because their symptoms are mischaracterized.