Commonwealth Fund article on disproportionally high Maternal Mortality Rate in United States

by faithgibson March 1, 2025

Insights into the U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis: An International Comparison https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2024/jun/insights-us-maternal-mortality-crisis-international-comparison Toplines The U.S. maternal mortality rate continues to far exceed those of other high-income nations, despite a decline since the end of the COVID-19 pandemic Persistent inequities in health care are a big reason why Black women in the U.S. are by far the […]

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Draft ~ Gender-prejudice in American obstetrics as the root of all evils

by faithgibson February 26, 2025

    Original source file is <Commentary-DrZiegler-presentation-Am-Public-Health Assoc 1921> —> Gender-prejudice as root of all evil — the medical profession’s gender bias against women as the ‘weaker sex’ included obstetricians as a convoluted form of “guilt by association”. Childbirth was seen as “women’s work”, in which only members of the female gender got pregnant and […]

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Home Birth in the United States: Action and Reaction by the AMA

by faithgibson February 14, 2025

URL ~ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-536X.2008.00261.x Home Birth in the United States: Action and Reaction https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-536X.2008.00261.x Diony Young 18 November 2008 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-536X.2008.00261.x Citations: 4 Less than 2 percent of babies are born at home in the United States. So, why do home births continue to raise such a red flag for medical organizations? Why do they continue to spend […]

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Citation key to Historical & Contemporary Reference ~ link to Official Plan to Eliminate the MIdwife

by faithgibson February 5, 2025

Historical Perspectives Series   Citation Key Historical and Contemporary References The Official Plan to Eliminate the Midwife International Journal of Domiciliary Midwifery This key gives the full citation for the coded numbers at the end of quotations. A single cited reference number is often at the end of several paragraphs when they are all from […]

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The “new” American Obstetrics as a surgical specialty, circa 1910 turned childbirth upside down, paving the way for the NEJM paper that recommended that vaginal birth be replaced scheduled cesarean as the new standard of care

by faithgibson February 2, 2025

WC 13335 Yikes DRAFT VERSION  The “new” American Obstetrics as a surgical specialty, circa 1910 turned childbirth upside down, paving the way for the NEJM paper that recommended that vaginal birth be replaced by scheduled cesarean as the new obstetrical standard of care   @@@ As a student of American obstetrics, its history and as […]

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