ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2013
Exploring the health consequences of majority-minority neighborhoods: minority diversity and birthweight among native-born and foreign-born blacks.
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- Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes Among Immigrant Women in the US and Europe: A Systematic Review.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2017Pooled it
- National Variation in Black Immigrant Preterm Births and the Role of County-Level Social Factors.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Observational
- African immigrants' favorable preterm birth rates challenge genetic etiology of the Black-White disparity in preterm birth.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- A Comprehensive Review on Social Inequalities and Pregnancy Outcome-Identification of Relevant Pathways and Mechanisms.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Nativity and perinatal outcome disparities in the United States: Beyond the immigrant paradox.Seminars in perinatology · 2022Review
- 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
- A Scoping Review of the Health of African Immigrant and Refugee Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Intergenerational Change in Birthweight: Effects of Foreign-born Status and Race/Ethnicity.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2020Article
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- An Examination of Preterm Birth and Residential Social Context among Black Immigrant Women in California, 2007-2010.Journal of community health · 2019Article
- Ethnic enclaves and birth outcomes of immigrants from India in a diverse U.S. state.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2018Article
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- Mortality of New York children with sickle cell disease identified through newborn screening.Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2015Article
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Abstract
We examined the association between neighborhood minority diversity and infant birthweight among non-Hispanic US-born black women and foreign-born black women from Sub-Saharan Africa and the non-Spanish speaking Caribbean using 2002-2006 vital statistics birth record data from the state of New Jersey (n = 73,907). We used a standardized entropy score to measure the degree of minority diversity (i.e., non-white multiethnic racial heterogeneity) for each census tract where women lived. We distinguished between four levels of minority diversity, with the highest level representing majority-minority neighborhoods. We estimated mean birthweight for singleton births over this 5-year period using linear regression with robust standard errors to correct for clustering of mothers within census tracts. We found significant differences in mean birthweight by mother's country of origin such that infants of US-born black mothers weighed significantly less than the infants of African and Caribbean immigrants (3130 g vs. 3299 g and 3212 g; p < 0.001). Adjustments for neighborhood deprivation, residential instability, individual-level sociodemographics, maternal health behaviors and conditions, and gestational age did not reduce these origin differences. Minority diversity had a protective effect on black infant health. Women living in low and moderately diverse tracts as well as those in majority-minority neighborhoods had heavier babies (β = 26.5, 29.8 and 61.2, respectively, p < 0.001) on average than women in the least diverse tracts. The results for majority-minority neighborhoods were robust when we controlled for neighborhood- and individual-level covariates.
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