African American Women and Health System African American Women in the United States are being discriminated in the health System.
Serena for example almost died while delivering her daughter because the doctors didn’t believe her! Can use it as an example. The sexual and reproductive health of African American women has been compromised due to multiple experiences of racism, including discriminatory healthcare practices from slavery through the post-Civil Rights era. However, studies rarely consider how the historical underpinnings of racism negatively influence the present-day health outcomes of African American women. We explored the link between historical and current experiences of racism and sexual and reproductive health outcomes.
