ArticleHealth & place2009
Effects of neighborhood racial composition on birthweight.
Article in Health & place, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 15 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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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
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- Ethnic density and depressive symptoms among African Americans: threshold and differential effects across social and demographic subgroups.American journal of public health · 2014Article
- Understanding utilization of outpatient clinics for children with special health care needs in southern Israel.Maternal and child health journal · 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
- The health benefits of Hispanic communities for non-Hispanic mothers and infants: another Hispanic paradox.American journal of public health · 2013Article
- Racial residential segregation and low birth weight in Michigan's metropolitan areas.American journal of public health · 2011Article
- Metropolitan isolation segregation and Black-White disparities in very preterm birth: a test of mediating pathways and variance explained.Social science & medicine (1982) · 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
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Abstract
We employed multilevel models to estimate the effects of neighborhood racial composition on birthweight, using a national urban sample of 1871 births to unmarried black mothers from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing birth cohort study. The mothers lived in 1181 census tracts with substantial variability in racial composition and poverty. Controlling for individual characteristics, census tract poverty, and city characteristics, the proportion black in the mother's census tract had no linear association with infant birthweight. There was an observed non-linear association, but the pattern was inconsistent with prevailing theories of how neighborhoods affect health. The results were robust to alternative measures, covariates, and sample restrictions and when accounting for the length of time the mother resided in her neighborhood.
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