M R Mclemore
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 42740 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M R Mclemore |
| PRENOMES | M R |
| SOBRENOME | Mclemore |
| ASSINATURA | MCLEMORE M R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6539-4256 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 169 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The 2025 Georgetown University Perinatal Symposium
Introduction and Purpose: The perinatal period is a crucial time for the health and well-being of pregnant, birthing, and postpartum individuals, infants, families, and their communities. However, deep structural and social inequities, including racism and other forms of discrimination, impact access to, utilization of, and quality of perinatal care. These inequities contribute to worsening maternal mortality and morbidity rates in the United Sta…
The Lived Experiences of Lesbian-Identified Black Women Navigating Sexual and Reproductive Health Care
Background: Few research studies have focused on the sexual and reproductive health care (SRH) experiences of Black women who identify as lesbian or gay compared with studies on lesbian-identified White women or heterosexual-identified Black women. Black women who identify as lesbian or gay may have different SRH needs and concerns than Black heterosexual women. This scoping review extracts, synthesizes, and interprets relevant qualitative and qu…
What Health Equity Journal Stands For
Place Matters
Background: Where you live impacts your access to all forms of health care, but abortion in particular. In response to restrictions on abortion, communities have organized to support those seeking abortion care via abortion funds. This study documents the services provided by these organizations and examines how they have been shaped by local conditions. Methods: Data come from a content analysis of the websites of all abortion funds affiliated w…
Building Capacity for Research on Community Doula Care
The findings of our stakeholder-engaged process provide a roadmap that will lead to equity-oriented research centering clients, doulas, and their communities
Virtual Research Prioritization
Involving communities in research prioritization is an important component of developing relevant research, policy, and healthcare questions. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to an increased need for research prioritization methods which align with public health protections. The Research Prioritization by Affected Communities (RPAC) protocol is a participatory method which directly involves historically excluded communitie…
“Patients want to see people that look like them”
Midwifery care and racially or culturally concordant care are evidence-based ways to address the current perinatal health crisis and disparate health outcomes in communities of color in the United States. However, the midwifery profession lacks diversity, which hinders its ability to provide racial or culturally concordant care. Therefore, this study sought to understand the perspectives and journeys of aspiring midwives of color to gain insight …
Babylost
How a Public Health Crisis Created an Impetus for Change
Police shootings, now that seems to be the main issue” – Black pregnant women’s anticipation of police brutality towards their children
Interactions between Black people and police on a personal, familial, community, and societal level influenced how Black pregnant women understand the potential for police brutality towards their children. Anticipated police brutality is a source of stress during pregnancy, which may adversely influence maternal and infant health outcomes. Police brutality must be addressed in all communities to prevent harming the health of birthing people and t…
Black Women's Lived Experiences of Abortion
In this study, we aim to understand abortion in the context of structural racism and reproductive injustice. We designed this study using Reproductive Justice and Public Health Critical Race Praxis frameworks. We conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with self-identified Black women over the age of 18 who have had an abortion. The primary identified theme is that "choice" around abortion is a privilege that is not always available to Blac…
Social and Structural Determinants of Health Inequities in Maternal Health
Since the World Health Organization launched its commission on the social determinants of health (SDOH) over a decade ago, a large body of research has proven that social determinants—defined as the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age—are significant drivers of disease risk and susceptibility within clinical care and public health systems. Unfortunately, the term has lost meaning within systems of care because of misuse…
Demolishing the Myth of the Default Human That Is Killing Black Mothers
It took a white police officer's knee on George Floyd's neck before white people began to reckon with 400 years of slavery and its aftermath, the effects of which Black people have endured for generations. Monuments are being taken down, flags are being redesigned, and institutions that honored those who denied the humanity of Black people are being renamed. Unfortunately for Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor, Sha-Asia Washington and countless other B…
The Space in the Middle
Understanding nurses' attitudes toward abortion, and what characteristics may influence their attitudes, is critical to sustaining nursing care for patients considering and seeking abortion. Additionally, because personal characteristics were associated with antiabortion attitudes, it is likely that personal experiences may influence attitudes toward abortion. A large percentage of nurses held attitudes that placed them in the "unsure" category. …
Black Women’s Perspectives on Structural Racism across the Reproductive Lifespan
Reflecting on Equity in Perinatal Care During a Pandemic
Growing discourse around maternity care during the pandemic offers an opportunity to reflect on how this crisis has amplified inequities in health care. We argue that policies upholding the rights of birthing people, and policies decreasing the risk of COVID-19 transmission are not mutually exclusive. The explicit lack of standardization of evidence-based maternity care, whether expressed in clinical protocols or institutional policy, has disprop…
First, Do No Harm
The philanthropic-industrial complex fosters the belief that the most marginalized communities lack an existing repository of historical and contemporary knowledge to address social and health inequities. In so doing, philanthropy has contributed to the diminishing political power, legitimacy, and effectiveness of community voices and leadership in reproductive equity through research injustice, cultural arrogance, philanthropic redlining, and co…
Risk and Protective Factors for Preterm Birth Among Black Women in Oakland, California
Pregnant Women's Acceptability of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drug Use Screening and Willingness to Disclose Use in Prenatal Care
Interest in Medication and Aspiration Abortion Training among Colorado Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Midwives, and Physician Assistants
A Transdisciplinary Conceptual Framework of Contextualized Resilience for Reducing Adverse Birth Outcomes
Research in preterm birth has focused on the disparate outcomes for Black, Hispanic, and Latina women as compared with White women. However, research studies have not focused on centering these women in frameworks that discuss how resilience is embodied. This article is a presentation of our transdisciplinary contextual framework of resilience, building on work that centers Black, Hispanic, and Latina women, as well as historical oppression and t…
The Giving Voice to Mothers study
BACKGROUND: Recently WHO researchers described seven dimensions of mistreatment in maternity care that have adverse impacts on quality and safety. Applying the WHO framework for quality care, service users partnered with NGOs, clinicians, and researchers, to design and conduct the Giving Voice to Mothers (GVtM)-US study. METHODS: Our multi-stakeholder team distributed an online cross-sectional survey to capture lived experiences of maternity care…
Information and power
Socioeconomic Status, Preeclampsia Risk and Gestational Length in Black and White Women
Compared to White women, Black women had increased preeclampsia risk. Higher SES attenuated risk for preeclampsia among White women, but not for Black women. Similarly, higher SES indirectly predicted longer gestational length via reduced preeclampsia risk among White women, but not for Black women. These findings are consistent with diminishing returns of higher SES for Black women with respect to preeclampsia
Previous Adverse Outcome of Term Pregnancy and Risk of Preterm Birth in Subsequent Pregnancy
Health care experiences of pregnant, birthing and postnatal women of color at risk for preterm birth
Information and power
Black Women’s Perspectives on Structural Racism across the Reproductive Lifespan
Using Index of Concentration at the Extremes as Indicators of Structural Racism to Evaluate the Association with Preterm Birth and Infant Mortality—California, 2011–2012
A Transdisciplinary Conceptual Framework of Contextualized Resilience for Reducing Adverse Birth Outcomes
Research in preterm birth has focused on the disparate outcomes for Black, Hispanic, and Latina women as compared with White women. However, research studies have not focused on centering these women in frameworks that discuss how resilience is embodied. This article is a presentation of our transdisciplinary contextual framework of resilience, building on work that centers Black, Hispanic, and Latina women, as well as historical oppression and t…
Socioeconomic Status, Preeclampsia Risk and Gestational Length in Black and White Women
Compared to White women, Black women had increased preeclampsia risk. Higher SES attenuated risk for preeclampsia among White women, but not for Black women. Similarly, higher SES indirectly predicted longer gestational length via reduced preeclampsia risk among White women, but not for Black women. These findings are consistent with diminishing returns of higher SES for Black women with respect to preeclampsia
Illness Narratives of African Americans Living With Coronary Heart Disease
How African American men and women respond to and manage living with coronary heart disease (CHD) is not well understood despite the well-documented disproportionate burden of CHD and its complications among African Americans in the United States. Through a critical interactionist perspective, we explore illness experiences of African Americans living with CHD and describe a broad range of micro-, meso-, and macro-contextual factors that influenc…
Babylost
Black Women's Lived Experiences of Abortion
In this study, we aim to understand abortion in the context of structural racism and reproductive injustice. We designed this study using Reproductive Justice and Public Health Critical Race Praxis frameworks. We conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with self-identified Black women over the age of 18 who have had an abortion. The primary identified theme is that "choice" around abortion is a privilege that is not always available to Blac…
Women Know Best—Findings from a Thematic Analysis of 5,214 Surveys of Abortion Care Experience
Radical or routine? Nurse practitioners, nurse-midwives, and physician assistants as abortion providers
In 2013 California passed legislation that expanded the pool of eligible aspiration abortion providers to include advanced practice nurses, nurse-midwives, and physician-assistants. This law, enacted in 2014, is based on evidence generated by the Health Workforce Pilot Project #171, which examined the safety and effectiveness of aspiration abortion care provided by these clinicians as well as patient acceptability and satisfaction. This evidence …
Illness Narratives of African Americans Living With Coronary Heart Disease
How African American men and women respond to and manage living with coronary heart disease (CHD) is not well understood despite the well-documented disproportionate burden of CHD and its complications among African Americans in the United States. Through a critical interactionist perspective, we explore illness experiences of African Americans living with CHD and describe a broad range of micro-, meso-, and macro-contextual factors that influenc…
Previous Adverse Outcome of Term Pregnancy and Risk of Preterm Birth in Subsequent Pregnancy
Using Index of Concentration at the Extremes as Indicators of Structural Racism to Evaluate the Association with Preterm Birth and Infant Mortality—California, 2011–2012
Health care experiences of pregnant, birthing and postnatal women of color at risk for preterm birth
The Giving Voice to Mothers study
BACKGROUND: Recently WHO researchers described seven dimensions of mistreatment in maternity care that have adverse impacts on quality and safety. Applying the WHO framework for quality care, service users partnered with NGOs, clinicians, and researchers, to design and conduct the Giving Voice to Mothers (GVtM)-US study. METHODS: Our multi-stakeholder team distributed an online cross-sectional survey to capture lived experiences of maternity care…
Information and power
Socioeconomic Status, Preeclampsia Risk and Gestational Length in Black and White Women
Compared to White women, Black women had increased preeclampsia risk. Higher SES attenuated risk for preeclampsia among White women, but not for Black women. Similarly, higher SES indirectly predicted longer gestational length via reduced preeclampsia risk among White women, but not for Black women. These findings are consistent with diminishing returns of higher SES for Black women with respect to preeclampsia
Reflecting on Equity in Perinatal Care During a Pandemic
Growing discourse around maternity care during the pandemic offers an opportunity to reflect on how this crisis has amplified inequities in health care. We argue that policies upholding the rights of birthing people, and policies decreasing the risk of COVID-19 transmission are not mutually exclusive. The explicit lack of standardization of evidence-based maternity care, whether expressed in clinical protocols or institutional policy, has disprop…
First, Do No Harm
The philanthropic-industrial complex fosters the belief that the most marginalized communities lack an existing repository of historical and contemporary knowledge to address social and health inequities. In so doing, philanthropy has contributed to the diminishing political power, legitimacy, and effectiveness of community voices and leadership in reproductive equity through research injustice, cultural arrogance, philanthropic redlining, and co…
Risk and Protective Factors for Preterm Birth Among Black Women in Oakland, California
Pregnant Women's Acceptability of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drug Use Screening and Willingness to Disclose Use in Prenatal Care
Interest in Medication and Aspiration Abortion Training among Colorado Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Midwives, and Physician Assistants
A Transdisciplinary Conceptual Framework of Contextualized Resilience for Reducing Adverse Birth Outcomes
Research in preterm birth has focused on the disparate outcomes for Black, Hispanic, and Latina women as compared with White women. However, research studies have not focused on centering these women in frameworks that discuss how resilience is embodied. This article is a presentation of our transdisciplinary contextual framework of resilience, building on work that centers Black, Hispanic, and Latina women, as well as historical oppression and t…
Social and Structural Determinants of Health Inequities in Maternal Health
Since the World Health Organization launched its commission on the social determinants of health (SDOH) over a decade ago, a large body of research has proven that social determinants—defined as the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age—are significant drivers of disease risk and susceptibility within clinical care and public health systems. Unfortunately, the term has lost meaning within systems of care because of misuse…
Demolishing the Myth of the Default Human That Is Killing Black Mothers
It took a white police officer's knee on George Floyd's neck before white people began to reckon with 400 years of slavery and its aftermath, the effects of which Black people have endured for generations. Monuments are being taken down, flags are being redesigned, and institutions that honored those who denied the humanity of Black people are being renamed. Unfortunately for Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor, Sha-Asia Washington and countless other B…
The Space in the Middle
Understanding nurses' attitudes toward abortion, and what characteristics may influence their attitudes, is critical to sustaining nursing care for patients considering and seeking abortion. Additionally, because personal characteristics were associated with antiabortion attitudes, it is likely that personal experiences may influence attitudes toward abortion. A large percentage of nurses held attitudes that placed them in the "unsure" category. …
Black Women’s Perspectives on Structural Racism across the Reproductive Lifespan
How a Public Health Crisis Created an Impetus for Change
Police shootings, now that seems to be the main issue” – Black pregnant women’s anticipation of police brutality towards their children
Interactions between Black people and police on a personal, familial, community, and societal level influenced how Black pregnant women understand the potential for police brutality towards their children. Anticipated police brutality is a source of stress during pregnancy, which may adversely influence maternal and infant health outcomes. Police brutality must be addressed in all communities to prevent harming the health of birthing people and t…
Black Women's Lived Experiences of Abortion
In this study, we aim to understand abortion in the context of structural racism and reproductive injustice. We designed this study using Reproductive Justice and Public Health Critical Race Praxis frameworks. We conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews with self-identified Black women over the age of 18 who have had an abortion. The primary identified theme is that "choice" around abortion is a privilege that is not always available to Blac…
“Patients want to see people that look like them”
Midwifery care and racially or culturally concordant care are evidence-based ways to address the current perinatal health crisis and disparate health outcomes in communities of color in the United States. However, the midwifery profession lacks diversity, which hinders its ability to provide racial or culturally concordant care. Therefore, this study sought to understand the perspectives and journeys of aspiring midwives of color to gain insight …
Babylost
Building Capacity for Research on Community Doula Care
The findings of our stakeholder-engaged process provide a roadmap that will lead to equity-oriented research centering clients, doulas, and their communities
Medicine (23 obras) · Health care (14 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Nursing (13 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (11 obras) · Pregnancy (11 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Reproductive Health and Contraception (9 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras)