Researchers are paying close attention to preconception care, or care that addresses health risks before a woman becomes pregnant, as an approach to reducing racial disparities in pregnancy and birth outcomes. It is well established that mitigating an array of...
Despite decades of attention, health disparities in birth outcomes persist for Black and African American women, who are more than two times as likely as white women to deliver a low birth weight infant. Intervention studies in prenatal care have not been shown to...