Saturday 12 October 2013

social determinants of health

Video: Unnatural Causes: 29 minutes – Part 2 – When the Bough Breaks
http://www.pbs.org/unnaturalcauses/video_player.htm?wbb_kim_anderson_story
http://www.pbs.org/unnaturalcauses/video_player.htm?wbb
Neonatologist Dr. Richard David says: “there’s something about growing up as a
Black female in the United States that’s not good for your childbearing health.”
• What evidence did Dr. Collins and David discover that undercuts genetic explanations for racial disparities in birth outcomes?
• Why is it significant that the daughters of African immigrants had worse birth outcomes than their mothers?
• Why do African American mothers – even those with college degrees – have more low birth-weight babies than white American and African immigrant women?
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