ArticleHealth economics2014
Fetal health shocks and early inequalities in health capital accumulation.
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- Birth Weight in Infants with a Cleft Lip and/or Palate: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.The Journal of pediatrics · 2026Pooled it
- High dosage folic acid supplementation, oral cleft recurrence and fetal growth.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2013Trial
- Academic outcomes of children with orofacial clefts: A review of the literature and recommendations for future research.Oral diseases · 2022Review
- Explaining ethnic disparities in preterm birth in Argentina and Ecuador.Global public health · 2018Article
- Maternal Education Gradients in Infant Health in Four South American Countries.Maternal and child health journal · 2017Article
- Oral Clefts and Academic Performance in Adolescence: The Impact of Anesthesia-Related Neurotoxicity, Timing of Surgery, and Type of Oral Clefts.The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association · 2017Article
- The impact of unemployment cycles on child and maternal health in Argentina.International journal of public health · 2017Article
- Disparities in birth weight and gestational age by ethnic ancestry in South American countries.International journal of public health · 2015Article
- Comparing the Visual Analogue Scale and the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory for measuring health-related quality of life in children with oral clefts.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2014Article
- A comparative analysis of prenatal care and fetal growth in eight South American countries.PloS one · 2014Article
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Abstract
Several studies report socioeconomic inequalities in child health and consequences of early disease. However, not much is known about inequalities in health capital accumulation in the womb in response to fetal health shocks, which is essential for finding the earliest sensitive periods for interventions to reduce inequalities. We identify inequalities in birth weight accumulation as a result of fetal health shocks from the occurrence of one of the most common birth defects, oral clefts, within the first 9 weeks of pregnancy, using quantile regression and two datasets from South America and the USA. Infants born at lower birth weight quantiles are significantly more adversely affected by the health shock compared with those born at higher birth weight quantiles, with overall comparable results between the South American and US samples. These results suggest that fetal health shocks increase child health disparities by widening the spread of the birth weight distribution and that health inequalities begin in the womb, requiring interventions before pregnancy.
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