Women's Access to Healthcare -- Further Reading

Partners in Health virtual panel event — ‘We Need to Be All Hands on Board’: Leaders Discuss Women’s Empowerment

In honor of our panel event Women in Coffee: Access to Healthcare & Barriers to Reproductive Justice, we thought we’d share a list of resources for further reading. As you know by now, this is something we take very seriously — the ability to educate ourselves and our communities, account for any unconscious biases, and make visible the invisible forces that obfuscate the path to true equity. Many of these resources are on the topic of racial inequities when it comes to public health, an inextricable element of gender inequity.

Did we miss anything? Please share your suggestions for further reading and we will add to this list!

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National Organization for Women — Reproductive Rights & Justice resources

Tamarindo Podcast — Reproductive Justice for All

Minnesota House of Representatives House Select Committee on Racial Justice — Black Maternal Health: Getting at the Root Cause of Inequity

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States — Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns

Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice — Measuring inequity: a systematic review of methods used to quantify structural racism

Social Science & Medicine — Declined care and discrimination during the childbirth hospitalization

Birth Issues in Perinatal Care — Applying a critical race lens to relationship-centered care in pregnancy and childbirth: An antidote to structural racism

Grounds for Health - Origin Story

Ethnicity and Disease — Developing a Medical School Curriculum on Racism: Multidisciplinary, Multiracial Conversations Informed by Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCRP)

The New England Journal of Medicine — Structural Racism and Supporting Black Lives — The Role of Health Professionals

Health Equity — Addressing Systemic Racism in Birth Doula Services to Reduce Health Inequities in the United States

Centers for Disease Control — Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System

Center for Reproductive Rights, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective — Reproductive Injustice: Racial & Gender Discrimination in US Healthcare

World Health Organization —

• Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH)

• Women’s Health

• Gender & Health

Health Affairs —

• Improving The Measurement Of Structural Racism To Achieve Antiracist Health Policy

• Racism & Health Virtual Symposium

• The Intellectual Roots Of Current Knowledge On Racism And Health: Relevance To Policy And The National Equity Discourse

• How Medicaid Coverage For Doula Care Could Improve Birth Outcomes, Reduce Costs, And Improve Equity

• Racism Runs Through It: Examining The Sexual And Reproductive Health Experience Of Black Women In The South

• Race, Racism, Civil Rights Law, And The Equitable Allocation Of Scarce COVID-19 Treatments

• Racism & Health In US Medicine, A Conversation with Harriet A. Washington

Voices of Youth — Women & Access to Healthcare

Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) —

• Beyond the Numbers: Access to Reproductive Health Care for Low-Income Women in Five Communities

• Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Services: Key Findings from the 2020 KFF Women's Health Survey

Urban Institute — All Reproductive Health & Access Publications

BMJ (British Medical Journal) — Women’s Health & Gender Inequalities

• Podcast: Campaigning for Change

• Podcast: The Science of Women’s Health

• Podcast: Legislating for Change

Partners in Health —

• Women’s Health

• ‘We Need to Be All Hands on Board’: Leaders Discuss Women’s Empowerment With PIH Community

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice

International Campaign for Women’s Right to Safe Abortion

Birth Issues for Perinatal Care — Applying a critical race lens to relationship-centered care in pregnancy and childbirth: An antidote to structural racism

Dr. Rachel Hardeman — Archive of papers on reproductive justice