United States: The obstetricians may provide Black women with the option of an unnecessary cesarian section which makes those women vulnerable to severe medical complications such as the ruptured surgical wound.
This is according to a fresh study of nearly one million births in 68 different hospitals in New Jersey and this is one of the biggest studies to look into the subject.
Still, even if a Black woman and a white woman with the same medical records visited the same doctor at the same hospital, the Black woman had a 20 percent higher chance of having a C-section, the study showed.
As reported by nytimes, the additional operations on Black patients were especially common when the hospitals had no scheduled C-sections, or when hospitals’ operating rooms were idle. This study recommends that as much as racial bias and the desire of making monetary gains influenced the actions of the doctors.
It is not obvious how that bias infiltrates the process of loading terminology into an NLP model. They may perform a C-section faster for Black women out of concern of well-documented race differences in birth outcomes. Black women may not challenge their doctors’ recommendation of a C-section because they will not be taken seriously when they say they do not want a C-section – or they feel disempowered to do so.
“Physicians may have certain beliefs about Black women,” said Janet Currie, a health economist at Princeton University and a co-author of the study. “They might not be paying Black women the same attention that they do with others, or be more worried that something will happen to them. ”
It is worth to state that C-section delivery is the most performed surgery in American hospitals, whereas years have been spent to minimize this intervention. Here it is acceptable to give birth this way while fewer than 5% of women worldwide; the WHO says that the C-section rate should not exceed 15% overall. Although it is a surgery and could be again, lifesaving, those surgeries, which are not necessary, complicate the situation for the mothers, their health as well as bills to pay.
So, the disparity emerged only when operating rooms were empty and then 8 percent of the healthy black women wound up delivering by C-Section which is compared with the 4.8 percent of the healthy white women.
And also, there is a lot of evidence that if a hospital has CT scan or an MRI they like ot keep it busy Dr. Currie said and if you really have an operating room set up to do a C-section and they like to keep it that busy too.