"It All Starts by Listening:" Medical Racism in Black Birthing Narratives and Community-Identified Suggestions for Building Trust in Healthcare.

Jasmine Y Zapata, Laura E T Swan, Morgan S White, Baillie Frizell-Thomas, Obiageli Oniah

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

Community-Led Solutions to Address Black Maternal and Infant Mortality Through the TNT-PISP Model: A Qualitative Study.Maternal and child health journal · 2026
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"Another person who loves you": Reconceptualizing Doula Care by Centering Cultural Competence in the Support of Black Birthing People.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026
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5 authors.

Jasmine Y ZapataDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53792, USA.

Laura E T SwanReproductive Equity Action Lab, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53726, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1371-3582

Morgan S WhiteDepartment of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1309-9594

Baillie Frizell-ThomasDepartment of Family Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.

Obiageli OniahSchool of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53792, USA.

Funding

Wisconsin Partnership Program N/A

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study documents Black Wisconsinites' birthing experiences and their proposed solutions to improve Black birthing people's trust in healthcare. Between 2019 and 2022, we conducted semi-structured, longitudinal interviews (both individual and focus group interviews) with those enrolled in a local perinatal support group program for Black birthing people (

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Black or African AmericanParturitionRacismTrustAdultFemaleHumansPregnancyWhiteWisconsinmedical distrustprovider biasracial discrimination

Identifiers

PMID40869788

DOI10.3390/ijerph22081203

PMCPMC12386468

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