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IIRC both higher life expectancy and lower infant mortality are considered likely to be due to community support systems being much better and more pervasive in
by Blahah 6y ago
IIRC both higher life expectancy and lower infant mortality are considered likely to be due to community support systems being much better and more pervasive in Latinx communities in the USA. Home births among Latinx are much safer than among most other subpopulations - reduced medicalisation and strong preservation of cultural knowledge about birth are major factors.
- in_cahoots 6y agoAny chance you have a citation or article for this? I’m not trying to critique here, it’s just that this hits close to home as a black woman. I see that modern midwifery is largely restricted to affluent, white, women, while the art of midwifery has largely been lost in the black community. It’s a cultural tragedy that the knowledge was lost.