Community Support Persons and Mitigating Obstetric Racism During Childbirth

Elle Lett; Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe; Dána-Ain Davis; Karen A. Scott

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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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