Jadalyn's Thoughts

So far, I have some pretty good sources for my paper of Black women’s health disparities. To find them, I searched keywords such as Black women, health disparity, equity, and poverty.  For my scholarly sources, I’ve chosen Unlearning, Undoing, and Uplifting: An organized Approach to Ending Health Disparities Affecting Black Women and Health Equity Among Black Women in the United States . These two sources cover the possible causes of health disparities and various solutions to end the disparities (more specifically the latter source). Health Equity Among Black Women in the United States provides a good deal of statistical and historical context in order to get a factual view point on the health inequity that Black women endure. For the personal anecdote that I plan on including in my paper, I chose to use a personal experience. My mother was subject to health disparity, and I witnessed it and all of the results that followed. It was a sad situation, but it closely relates to my th...

 For this upcoming writing project, I plan on writing about Black women experiencing health disparity . It's a very intriguing, yet personal topic to write about for me. I think the topic of Black women having a great deal of health disparity is being discussed more, however I think the discussion are mostly concerning Black women dying during birth or experiencing birthing difficulties due to improper health care. There's much more to become aware about.     As of right now, I know that Black women severely struggle when it comes to maternal health. In addition, Black women's health in general is often put at risk because their concerns are overlooked. Based on research that I have conducted thus far and personal experience, there is a racial bias that leads to the idea that Black women have a high pain tolerance (hence strong Black woman). Beyond this, Black women have a significantly higher risk at getting heart disease, hypertension, diabetes...