User:Ruthkayongo12/Black maternal mortality in the United States

Assessment:

Overall, it was a good page in terms of giving surface level information, but there needs to be more information on why these things exist. Additionally, the page is somewhat outdated and it gave surface level information about black maternal mortality rates, but there needs to be more information about racism tied into medicine considering our class discussions about stereotypes associated with medicine or patients in general. Furthermore, there could be more information provided on things that black women, specifically, lack access to in terms of healthcare.

Hello! We are three students at Georgetown University taking a Women and Gender Studies course called 'Medicine, Race, and Gender.' In this course, we are exploring issues and advocacy around health inequities. Part of this course requires that we make comments and suggestions on a talk page using some of the knowledge we have attained from our course. We all have an interest in black maternal health which is why we are commenting on this article. We think that your page is very informative, but we think that there could be more information provided about the history of medicine and the racism that has stemmed from it, more specifically, how stereotypes and false narratives have originated and the lasting impacts that they have had on the field of healthcare today.

What we think should be added and why:

a) Update data under Maternal Mortality Rates. Most of the data that is included in this section is somewhat old considering that the WHO and other organizations produce data on these rates year. Therefore, we think that it would be good to include information and statistics that are more recent.

b) Include more information on the history of stereotypes of black women under the racism subsection. This section speaks briefly about the stereotypes, but the page and section could be stronger if there was more information on how these stereotypes originated and how they have impacted black maternal health today.

c) Write about the Sister Song Reproductive Justice Initiative under the Reproductive and Sexual Health Rights subsection. This section explains the lack of access to reproductive care and having conducted a google search on Sister Song Reproductive Justice, we thought that it would be interesting to write about the initiative as it outlines a solution to the lack of access.

Sources:

https://www.sistersong.net/reproductive-justice

https://www.who.int/maternal_child_adolescent/events/2008/mdg5/countries/Final-CP-USA-19-09-08.pdf

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/p0905-racial-ethnic-disparities-pregnancy-deaths.html

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/maternal-mortality-2021/E-Stat-Maternal-Mortality-Rates-H.pdf

Prof Comments
Hi All! I absolutely agree with all of your notes here. This is in urgent need of an update!! You could also see if there are related pages that the article might link to in "see also" on some of these, as there currently are only two items in there. To start off your comment, you could paste "what we think should be added and why" and "sources" as they stand into the talk page. What you would want to do after that is to first, of course, contextualize and frame your comment in terms of who you are and what our course is, but then also in terms of any existing content on the talk page already that you feel you may want to amplify/disagree/etc. thanks!!Liliput000 (talk) 14:19, 1 July 2021 (UTC)