Patients with lower socioeconomic status often have more negative healthcare experiences.
- Associate professor, University of California, San Francisco
Provider burnout is expensive for the health system given its associations with low quality of care, absenteeism, and high workforce turnover.
Studies in poor countries have highlighted disparities in respectful and responsive care during childbirth based on women’s socioeconomic status and other characteristics.
Unfortunately, disrespectful and neglectful treatment of women during childbirth, including verbal, physical and emotional abuse is not uncommon.
Verbal and physical abuse appeared to be an expression of both helplessness and an exercise of power.
Most women feel they are unable to ask health professionals questions. And only half were consistently asked if they had questions.
Research in Ghana, India and Kenya shows that more women experience subtle forms of undignified care than they do physical and verbal abuse during childbirth.
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