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Community Support Persons and Mitigating Obstetric Racism During Childbirth

Elle Lett, Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe, Dána-Ain Davis and Karen A. Scott
The Annals of Family Medicine April 2023, 2958; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.2958
Elle Lett
Birthing Cultural Rigor, LLC, Nashville, Tennessee
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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Dána-Ain Davis
Center for the Study of Women and Society, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, New York
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Karen A. Scott
Birthing Cultural Rigor, LLC, Nashville, Tennessee
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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  • Received for publication August 25, 2022
  • Revision received December 13, 2022
  • Accepted for publication December 22, 2022
  • Published online April 5, 2023.

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  • health inequities
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