ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2016
Life-course Social Mobility and Reduced Risk of Adverse Birth Outcomes.
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- Personal Versus Group Experiences of Racism and Risk of Delivering a Small-for-Gestational Age Infant in African American Women: a Life Course Perspective.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2019Article
- Early-life neighborhood context, perceived stress, and preterm birth in African American Women.SSM - population health · 2019Article
- Neighborhood Tax Foreclosures, Educational Attainment, and Preterm Birth among Urban African American Women.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Measuring childhood socioeconomic position in health research: Development and validation of childhood socioeconomic position questionnaire using mixed method approach.Health promotion perspectives · 2019Article
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introductionHigher adult socioeconomic position (SEP) is associated with better birth outcomes. However, few studies incorporate life-course or intergenerational SEP, which may inform etiology and targeted prevention efforts. This study tested whether life-course social mobility from childhood was associated with lower risk of adverse birth outcomes.
methodsData were from the Life-course Influences of Fetal Environments (LIFE) retrospective cohort study among black women, 2009-2011, in metropolitan Detroit, MI. This study (analyzed in 2014-2016) examined whether social mobility was associated with two primary birth outcomes: small for gestational age (SGA) and preterm birth (PTB). Childhood and adulthood SEP were measured by survey in adulthood, for two constructs, measured ordinally: educational attainment and perceived financial sufficiency (subjective income/wealth). Social mobility was calculated as the difference of adulthood minus childhood SEP.
resultsIn covariate-adjusted Poisson regression models, 1-SD improved educational social mobility from childhood to adulthood was protective for SGA (adjusted risk ratio=0.76; 95% CI=0.64, 0.91); this association remained after adjusting for financial mobility. Upward financial social mobility from early childhood was marginally protective for SGA (adjusted risk ratio=0.85; 95% CI=0.72, 1.02), but became nonsignificant after controlling educational mobility. There were no overall associations of social mobility with PTB or low birth weight, although sensitivity analyses identified that improved financial mobility was associated with 16% marginally lower risk of spontaneous PTB and 28% marginally lower risk of low birth weight among upwardly mobile/stable women only.
conclusionsImproved life-course social mobility is associated with reduced risk for SGA and spontaneous PTB among black women.
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