Black Women's Perspectives on Structural Racism across the Reproductive Lifespan: A Conceptual Framework for Measurement Development.
Background: Exposures to structural racism has been identified as one of the leading risk factors for adverse maternal and infant health outcomes among Black women; yet current measures of structural racism do not fully account for inequities seen in adverse maternal and infant health outcomes betwe...
| Publicado en: | Maternal & Child Health Journal Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 402 - 414 |
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Springer Nature
Mar2021
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