Building a Movement to Birth a More Just and Loving World, a March 2018 report from the National Perinatal Task Force, asserts that “prioritizing the impacts of the social determinants of health is an essential part of addressing this unfair and avoidable disparity in health status and outcomes.”xi Like other reports and articles examining this issue, it highlights the facts that the health inequities that Black people and women Black Mamas Matter Alliance | 5 face over the life course, including before, during, and after pregnancy, are interrelated and impacted by the intense and unequal racialized conditions that Black people experience on a daily basis in the United States.
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