High-income Black mothers and their newborns have worse health outcomes than their less-wealthy white peers. So what’s going on?
That’s the conclusion of a research paper circulated this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Cambridge, Mass.-based nonprofit. The study, titled “Maternal and Infant Health Inequality,” crunched data from California birth records from 2007 to 2016.That’s the conclusion of a research paper circulated this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Cambridge, Mass.-based nonprofit.
Infant and maternal health were best for non-Hispanic white families and worst for non-Hispanic Black families. The gaps between the two groups are larger than the income differences within a race. That means even the highest-income Black mothers and their newborns actually experience worse infant and maternal mortality rates than their lowest-income white counterparts.
Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than their white counterparts, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “The stark inequities by income and race in California are particularly striking given that the state has one of the most generous social safety-net systems in the U.S., and is also well-known for its efforts to improve maternal and infant-health outcomes and address racial disparities,” added the paper’s authors, who came from Stanford University, New York University, Columbia University, the University of Michigan and the U.S. Census Bureau.
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