Division of Pediatric Neurology, School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana
Short Communication
Health situation of black and poor women facing COVID-19: Victims of Inequalities
Author(s): Pascal David*
A woman dies every seven hours in Brazil victim of feminicide.
Maternal mortality of black women due to COVID-19, the new
coronavirus, is almost twice as high as that of white women. Studies
were identified using large-circulation international journals found in
two electronic databases: Scopus and Embase. This idea of the black
and poor woman as disposable or unnecessary has an enormous
race influency. In this context, the burden that the pandemic
can cause to the country's health system may further expose the
structural racism that goes through health care. Maternal mortality
of black women due to COVID-19, the new coronavirus, is almost
twice as high as that of white women. Thus, the concentration of
efforts to approach COVID-19 in medical-centred care measures
decontextualized, not only in relation to people's way of living and
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