UW News
Ira Kantrowitz-Gordon
August 27, 2019
Pregnant women of color experience disempowerment by health care providers
![Study finds health care providers need more training in power differentials, informed consent and providing respectful care.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/08/27141007/Lidor_Flickr-150x150.jpg)
A new study finds that women of color perceive their interactions with doctors, nurses and midwives as being misleading, with information being “packaged” in such a way as to disempower them by limiting maternity health care choices for themselves and their children.