Disparities in Prenatal Care Utilization Among U.S. Versus Foreign-Born Women with Chronic Conditions.

Samantha S Goldfarb, Whitney Smith, Anne E Epstein, Stevie Burrows, Martha Wingate

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Article in Journal of immigrant and minority health, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

Neonatal mortality among disaggregated Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander populations.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025
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Drivers of care and outcomes for people facing fetal conditions in the United States: a conceptual framework.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025
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Delayed entry into prenatal care among women with pre-pregnancy health conditions, National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997-2011.Preventive medicine · 2022
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Non-communicable diseases and maternal health: a scoping review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2022
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Descriptive and risk factor analysis of infantile cataracts: National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 2000-2011.American journal of medical genetics. Part A · 2022
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Utilization of Maternal Health Care Among Immigrant Mothers in New York City, 2016-2018.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2021
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Prevalence of selected birth defects by maternal nativity status, United States, 1999-2007.Birth defects research · 2019
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Disparities in Infant Mortality by Race Among Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Infants.Maternal and child health journal · 2017
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Samantha S GoldfarbDepartment of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, Florida State University, 1115 W. Call Street, Tallahassee, FL, 32306-4300, USA. samantha.goldfarb@med.fsu.edu.

Whitney SmithDepartment of Health Care Organization and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

Anne E EpsteinDepartment of Health Care Organization and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

Stevie BurrowsCarbone Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA.

Martha WingateMaternal and Child Health Policy and Leadership Program, Department of Health Care Organization and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We examined disparities in prenatal care utilization (PNCU) among U.S. and foreign-born women with chronic conditions. We performed a cross-sectional analyses using data from 2011 to 2012 National Center for Health Statistics Natality Files (n = 6,644,577) to examine the association between maternal nativity (U.S. vs. foreign-born), presence of a chronic condition (diabetes or hypertensive disorder) and PNCU. After adjustment for selected maternal characteristics, overall and among those with chronic conditions, foreign-born women reported significantly lower odds of intensive and adequate PNCU and higher odds of intermediate and inadequate PNCU than U.S.-born women. Few differences in report of no care were found by maternal nativity. These findings suggest that foreign-born women may be receiving some form of prenatal care, but adequacy of care is likely to be lower compared to U.S.-born counterparts, even among those with chronic conditions.

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AdolescentAdultChronic DiseaseCross-Sectional StudiesEmigrants and ImmigrantsFemaleHealthcare DisparitiesHumansHypertensionParityPregnancyPregnancy Complications, CardiovascularPregnancy in DiabeticsPrenatal CareRisk FactorsSocioeconomic FactorsMaternal chronic conditionsMaternal healthMaternal nativityPrenatal care utilization

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PMID27221086

DOI10.1007/s10903-016-0435-x

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