Community perspectives on the racial disparity in perinatal outcomes.

Objective: The United States' infant and maternal mortality rates are significantly higher among non-Hispanic Black women and infants than women and infants of other races, independent of educational attainment or socioeconomic status. The purpose of this research was to understand conditions that lead to these disparities and propose practices for addressing them through community perspectives.

Method: Researchers conducted six focus groups with African American women who had been pregnant previously ( = 27) and performed inductive thematic analysis looking at the interaction between race and health.