Reflecting on Equity in Perinatal Care during a Pandemic

P. Mimi Niles; Ifeyinwa V. Asiodu; Joia Crear-Perry; Zoë Julian; Audrey Lyndon; Monica R. McLemore; Arianna M. Planey; Karen A. Scott; Saraswathi Vedam

doi:10.1089/heq.2020.0022

Reflecting on Equity in Perinatal Care during a Pandemic

P. Mimi Niles, Ifeyinwa V. Asiodu, Joia Crear-Perry, Zoë Julian, Audrey Lyndon, Monica R. McLemore, Arianna M. Planey, Karen A. Scott, Saraswathi Vedam

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Growing discourse around maternity care during the pandemic offers an opportunity to reflect on how this crisis has amplified inequities in health care. We argue that policies upholding the rights of birthing people, and policies decreasing the risk of COVID-19 transmission are not mutually exclusive. The explicit lack of standardization of evidence-based maternity care, whether expressed in clinical protocols or institutional policy, has disproportionately impacted marginalized communities. If these factors remain unexamined, then it would seem that equity is not the priority, but retaining power and control is. We advocate for a comprehensive understanding of how this pandemic has revealed our deepest failures.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	330-333
Number of pages	4
Journal	Health Equity
Volume	4
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1089/heq.2020.0022
State	Published - Jul 1 2020

Keywords

health disparities
minority health
public health
reproductive health

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Health(social science)
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Health Information Management
Health Policy

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