Ethnic disparities in maternal care

Black and ethnic minority women are paying with their lives for the lack of action on racial bias, reports Lilian Anekwe Maternal health—or lack of it—is one of the starkest examples of racial health inequalities in the United Kingdom and in the United States. Work in the UK by University of Oxford researchers found that between 2014 and 2016 the rate of maternal death in pregnancy was 8 in 100 000 white women, compared with 15 in 100 000 Asian...