More deaths, worse care? Inquiry opens into NHS maternity 'systemic racism'
Childbirth rights group supports examination into disproportionate health outcomes
Challenging racism in the use of health data - The Lancet Digital Health
NHS England criticised over missing ethnicity data for covid-19 jabs
NHS England is facing growing criticism from public health leaders over its failure to publish data on the ethnicity of people who have been vaccinated against covid-19
Why historic injustices are causing vaccine hesitancy among ethnic minorities
Concerns about the low take up of vaccines by black & Asian community. Calls for data on ethnicity to be collected as part of vaccine uptake data collection
Envisioning better health outcomes for all
The current covid-19 pandemic has shined the spotlight on longstanding health inequities for people of color. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, compared to the general United States population, African Americans are 1.4 times more likely to contract the coronavirus, and 2.8 times more likely to die from covid-19.
Black women in the UK four times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth
Disparity with white women shows need for action, doctors say, despite slight improvement in mortality rate