ArticleJournal of the National Medical Association2006
Residential racial concentration and birth outcomes by nativity: do neighbors matter?
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- Ethnic density effects on physical morbidity, mortality, and health behaviors: a systematic review of the literature.American journal of public health · 2012Pooled it
- Association between food environments and fetal growth in pregnant Brazilian women.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2023Article
- Neighborhood Context and the Nativity Advantage in Preterm Birth among Black Women in California, USA.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2021Article
- Neighborhood Racial/Ethnic Composition Trajectories and Black-White Differences in Preterm Birth among Women in Texas.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2020Article
- An Examination of Preterm Birth and Residential Social Context among Black Immigrant Women in California, 2007-2010.Journal of community health · 2019Article
- Neighborhood ethnic density and self-rated health: Investigating the mechanisms through social capital and health behaviors.Health & place · 2018Article
- Transgenerational Transmission of Preterm Birth Risk: The Role of Race and Generational Socio-Economic Neighborhood Context.Maternal and child health journal · 2017Article
- Residential segregation, political representation, and preterm birth among U.S.- and foreign-born Black women in the U.S. 2008-2010.Health & place · 2017Article
- Ethnic density and depressive symptoms among African Americans: threshold and differential effects across social and demographic subgroups.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
- Prenatal care and risk of preterm birth among foreign and US-born mothers in Michigan.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2012Article
- Spatio-temporal patterning of small area low birth weight incidence and its correlates: a latent spatial structure approach.Spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology · 2011Article
- The paternal component of the "healthy migrant" effect: fathers' natality and infants' low birth weight.Maternal and child health journal · 2011Article
- Racial/ethnic residential segregation: framing the context of health risk and health disparities.Health & place · 2011Review
- Neighborhood ethnic density and preterm birth across seven ethnic groups in New York City.Health & place · 2011Article
- Variations in health and health behaviors by nativity among pregnant Black women in Philadelphia.American journal of public health · 2010Article
- Ethnic density effects on birth outcomes and maternal smoking during pregnancy in the US linked birth and infant death data set.American journal of public health · 2010Article
- Racial/ethnic disparities in obstetric outcomes and care: prevalence and determinants.American journal of obstetrics and gynecology · 2010Review
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Abstract
objectivesWe examined the associations of residential segregation with poor birth outcomes (low birthweight, preterm) and with perinatal risk markers (maternal age, education and marital status, prenatal care and substance use, presence of paternal information on birth certificate) for foreign- and native-born black women in the Minnesota seven-county metropolitan area.
methodsData were from 1990-1999 Minnesota birth certificates linked to the 1990 U.S. census. We used multivariable logistic regression to examine the association of perinatal risk markers, low birthweight and preterm birth for foreign- and native-born black women by residential black concentration.
resultsNative-born black women had a higher prevalence of risk markers and were at almost 1.5 times the risk of foreign-born blacks for delivery of low-birthweight or preterm infants. Risk markers and poor birth outcomes were most prevalent in medium and high-black-concentration areas than low-concentration areas. Preterm birth was slightly positively associated with residential black concentration.
conclusionsNative-born black women were at higher risk than foreign-born women for delivery of preterm and low-birthweight infants. Residential black concentration was associated with risk markers and only slightly associated with preterm birth. Further study of why birth outcome differentials exist by nativity and residential black concentration may identify opportunities for community-based public health interventions.
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