QUESTION
Council Member Louis Inquires About Programs Highlighting BIPOC Women's Health Equity
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Council Member Farah Louis questions the initiatives specifically designed to address disparities in health outcomes for BIPOC women, with a particular focus on Black women. The discussion includes the 'centering the margins' approach, initiatives stemming from Antonio Reynoso's maternal health task force, midwifery initiatives, the maternal hospital quality improvement network, and the citywide doula initiative. These programs aim to reduce inequities and improve overall health outcomes.
Speaker 1
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And research shows that bipoch women and particularly black women are more likely to have poor health outcomes due to disparities in care.
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How is this agenda highlighting that issue and ensuring that it is focusing on the most marginalized women?
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You highlighted some of it, but if you could go further.
Speaker 4
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Yes.
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Thank you for that question.
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We very much agree that we need to be focusing our resources on the communities and populations that have the most unfair outcomes.
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And so the way that we do that is something called centering the margins It's a program design tool that is focused on anti racism, and it's about prioritizing women of color who have the most unfair health outcomes and knowing that by targeting and focusing on that population, outcomes for everyone will actually improve.
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So specifically, I wanna also highlight Brooklyn Burrow President, Antonio Reynoso's maternal health task force that we participated in, and that led to a focus on communications campaigns, giving information about nutrition, emotional wellness, legal rights, health insurance access, midwifery support and doula services.
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We also have a midwifery initiative that builds on research about existing midwifery care models across pregnancy birth in the postpartum period.
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We also run the maternal hospital quality improvement network, which is a clinical and community initiative that seeks to reduce inequities in preventable maternal mortality and morbidity with a focus on black women.
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And then finally, we also run the citywide doula initiative which provides doula support city wide through the by my side birth support program and partnerships with other doula led organizations.
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So those are a few of the programs that really focus again on the inequitable and unfair health outcomes of black women.
Speaker 1
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Thank you for that.
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You mentioned a bill that we've a package, maternal health package that Uber have done last year.
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So I'm going to quickly ask you about 2 bills that we got past last year and for some updates.