Disproportionate Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Among Pregnant and Postpartum Black Women in Brazil Through Structural Racism Lens
Clin Infect Dis
.
2021 Jun 1;72(11):2068-2069.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1066.
Authors
Debora de Souza Santos
1
,
Mariane de Oliveira Menezes
2
,
Carla Betina Andreucci
3
,
Marcos Nakamura-Pereira
4
,
Roxana Knobel
5
,
Leila Katz
6
,
Heloisa de Oliveira Salgado
7
,
Melania Maria Ramos de Amorim
6
,
Maira L S Takemoto
2
Affiliations
1
Nursing School, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
2
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Botucatu Medical School, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, Brazil.
3
Department of Medicine, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil.
4
Fernandes Figueira National Institute of Women, Adolescent and Child Health, Fundação Osvaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
5
Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil.
6
Instituto de Medicina Integral Prof. Fernando Figueira, Recife, Brazil.
7
Department of Social Medicine, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.
PMID:
32719866
PMCID:
PMC7454418
DOI:
10.1093/cid/ciaa1066
No abstract available
Publication types
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
Black or African American
Brazil / epidemiology
COVID-19*
Female
Health Status Disparities
Humans
Postpartum Period
Pregnancy
Racism*
SARS-CoV-2