Black women's access to reproductive health care was impacted by residential location and income. Pre-dominantly Black neighborhoods lacked health care facilities causing black women to have to commute out of their neighborhoods to receive care. Also a lack of insurance and the quality of the insurance correlated with forgoing care.

Structural Racism Impact on Black Women's Access to Reproductive Health Care 

Structural racism impacted Black women utilizing reproductive health care services through limitation on what services were covered by insurance or offered for free. Black women without insurance reported having to try to find free services available. 

Structural Racism Impact on Black Women's Utilization of Reproductive Health Care Services

Structural Racism greatly impacted Black women’s view of the standard of care they received. It was reported that Black women’s race and SES had a negative impact on their experience. Black women reported that public hospitals provided comparatively worse care then private hospitals. 

Structural Racism Impact on Black Women's Experience Within Reproductive Health Care Services

Racial Prejudice can systematically influence maternal access to quality healthcare services and also have the potential to negatively impact fetal health as a chronic stressor 

Racial Prejudice 

The biased or bigoted limiting to desired opportunities and assets deriving from social policies and structures.

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There is a lack of research focusing on how racism impacts Black women's utilization of reproductive healthcare services. Black women have higher rates of unplanned pregnancy, STDs, and abortion than white women. Due to these disparities, Racism needs to be studied as a possible factor exacerbating these differences.

Racism's Impact on Black Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes In Southern U.S. 

Thompson, Terri-ann Monique, et al. “Racism Runs through It: Examining the Sexual and Reproductive Health Experience of Black Women in the South.” Health Affairs, vol. 41, no. 2, 2022, pp. 195–202. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01422

Racism Runs through It: Examining the Sexual and Reproductive Health Experience of Black Women in the South

The individual experience of biased or bigoted treatment directed at individuals due to social policies and structures.

Individual Racism

Due to the reports from the black women, limitations on insurance and lack of healthcare facilities in pre-dominantly black neighborhoods greatly impacted their access, utilization, and experience with reproductive health care services. Policies that broaden the services covered through insurance and placed more resources in pre-dominantly black neighborhoods could prove affective. 

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