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An investigation of racial and ethnic disparities in birth weight in Chicago neighborhoods.
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- Place and Child Health: The Interaction of Population Density and Sanitation in Developing Countries.Demography · 2017Article
- Immigrant Latino neighborhoods and mortality among infants born to Mexican-origin Latina women.Maternal and child health journal · 2015Article
- Preconception stress, birth weight, and birth weight disparities among US women.American journal of public health · 2014Article
- A quasi-experimental analysis of maternal altitude exposure and infant birth weight.American journal of public health · 2014Article
- Exploring the health consequences of majority-minority neighborhoods: minority diversity and birthweight among native-born and foreign-born blacks.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2013Article
- Investigating the relationship between neighborhood poverty and mortality risk: a marginal structural modeling approach.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2013Article
- Pathways of neighbourhood-level socio-economic determinants of adverse birth outcomes.International journal of health geographics · 2013Article
- Relationship of social network size to infant birth weight in Hispanic and non-Hispanic women.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2011Article
- Social context explains race disparities in obesity among women.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2010Article
- A multilevel model for comorbid outcomes: obesity and diabetes in the US.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2010Article
- Effects of neighborhood racial composition on birthweight.Health & place · 2009Article
- Does place explain racial health disparities? Quantifying the contribution of residential context to the Black/white health gap in the United States.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2008Article
- Neighborhood context and ethnicity differences in body mass index: a multilevel analysis using the NHANES III survey (1988-1994).Economics and human biology · 2007Article
- Maternal upward socioeconomic mobility and black-white disparities in infant birthweight.American journal of public health · 2006Article
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Abstract
We examine differences in the mean birth weights of infants born to non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic white, and Mexican-origin Hispanic mothers (of any race) in Chicago in 1990 using linear regression models with neighborhood fixed effects. Our pooled models accounted for 64% of the black-white difference and 57% of the black/Mexican-origin Hispanic difference. Differences in the relationship between measured characteristics and birth weight accounted for around half the birth-weight gap between non-Hispanic black and other infants. Efforts to close this gap must go beyond programs that aim to reduce the level of risk factors among black women to address the causes of differences in the effects of risk factors.
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