Healthiest pregnant women feel a strong sense of community

Monday, August 2, 2010 - 18:28 in Psychology & Sociology

It takes a village to keep a pregnant woman at her healthiest, a new study shows. The study compared African American and European American women and women of lower and higher socioeconomic status to see what effects communalism, or a strong sense of community, had on African American women and women of lower socioeconomic status.

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