安大略省黑人分娩后死亡率:呼吁提供更好的基于种族和社会人口统计数据
Carolina Lavin Venegas1, Nicole F Roberts2, Alicia St Hill2
1Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN) Ontario, Ottawa, ON; Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, ON.
概括
在加拿大安大略省的黑人,在产科结果中面临更高的风险. 改善关于种族和社会决定因素的数据收集对于推进围产期健康公平至关重要.
科学领域:
- 产科和妇科 产科和妇科
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 健康 公平 研究 健康 公平 研究
背景情况:
- 产科结果的种族差异是一个全球性的问题,黑人面临着高的孕产妇死亡风险.
- 现有的加拿大关于这些差异的数据,特别是对于黑人分娩的人来说,是有限的.
- 解决健康不平等问题需要对包括种族在内的社会人口统计学因素提供可靠的数据.
研究的目的:
- 在安大略省10年的时间内调查黑人分娩个体死亡的原因.
- 突出需要改进数据收集,使用和治理健康数据的基于种族和社会决定因素.
- 强调这些数据对于推动围产期健康公平的有影响力的变化的重要性.
主要方法:
- 对安大略省20名黑人分娩人员的死亡率数据的回顾性分析.
- 在这个群体中十年来对死亡原因的检查.
- 审查当前的数据治理实践与社会人口统计信息相关的围产健康.
主要成果:
- 在安大略省的黑人分娩人员中确定了特定的死亡原因.
- 突出了围产期健康监测中收集和利用基于种族的数据的重大差距.
- 强调数据在监测和推进健康公平方面的关键作用.
结论:
- 改善健康数据的种族和社会决定因素的收集,使用和治理对于解决黑人孕产妇死亡率至关重要.
- 增强数据对于做出明智决策至关重要,以推动系统变革并实现围产期健康公平.
- 卫生系统,社区和生活经验倡导者之间的合作是推动健康公平倡议的关键.
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