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The Other Maternal Health Crisis: Black Birthing People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

And many American women do not have access to coverage for midwives, doulas, and other community health workers to help them overcome the challenges embedded within the US healthcare system. However, recent research has revealed that race is even more important than income when it comes to birth outcomes.

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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: gorodenkoff on istock.com The creativity and ingenuity of socially marginalized and racialized groups can drive innovative healthcare solutions. The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the social, economic, and racial discrimination that underlies the US healthcare system.

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How to Address the Maternal Mortality Crisis: A Conversation with Dorothy Cilenti

NonProfit Quarterly

Then, we have a section on collaboration. Some of the recommendations in the collaboration section are really focused on the need to build partnerships and work across sectors. Determinants that contribute to that risk include economic stability, education, healthcare, and housing. DC: We divide the book into sections.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Mental Health

Bloomerang

The grantmakers and funders on this list seek to remedy this healthcare crisis in their communities and beyond. California Healthcare Foundation. The Connecticut Health Foundation envisions a Connecticut where everyone—regardless of race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status—can achieve optimal health. Daniel’s Fund.

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BIPOC Leadership Challenges: 26 Tips To Increase Accessibility Across The Nonprofit Sector

Bloomerang

The long-term goal is that this declines as each new generation advances, but as we have seen in recent years, these deep rooted social ethnic divides are ingrained in western societies and hardwired into how our cultures function. They all present experiences which we — by no fault of our own — may find hard to comprehend.

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Facial Recognition Technology’s Enduring Threat to Civil Liberties

NonProfit Quarterly

The same report—which investigated disparities among several racial and ethnic groups, men, and women—revealed that false matches for mugshots were highest for Black women. Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019), 32. 11 (2022):12351–58.

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Precision Medicine Has a Data Equity Problem

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: onlyyouqj on istock.com Precision medicine, which relies on genomics to understand how a person’s genetic makeup affects their health, looms large over the United States’ overburdened and underperforming healthcare system.