ArticleMaternal & child nutrition2019
Sudden infant death and social justice: A syndemics approach.
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- Effect of sleep position in term healthy newborns on sudden infant death syndrome and other infant outcomes: A systematic review.Journal of global health · 2022Pooled it
- The provision of the baby box was associated with safe sleep practices in a low-resource community: a randomized control trial in Ecuador.BMC pediatrics · 2023Trial
- A Decade of Empowerment: Strengthening Safe Sleep Awareness Among Black Birthing People.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
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- Patterns of Infant Sleep and Care Practices: 2016-2020.Pediatrics · 2025Article
- Beyond the rules: an integrative review of parental perspectives on safer infant sleep in shared environments.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
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- Association of State-Level Tax Policy and Infant Mortality in the United States, 1996-2019.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Maternal socioeconomic position and inequity in child deaths: An analysis of 2012 South Korean birth cohort of 466,636 children.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Adapting forensic case reporting to account for marginalization and vulnerability.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2023Article
- Operationalizing the structural vulnerability profile within the medical examiner context.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2023Article
- Infant sleep as a topic in healthcare guidance of parents, prenatally and the first 6 months after birth: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Examining the Relationship Between Sleep-Related Infant Deaths and Social Determinants of Health in Urban Communities.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2022Article
- Safe sleep and reading guidance during prenatal care? findings from a pilot trial using specially designed children's books.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2022Article
- Bedsharing may partially explain the reduced risk of sleep-related death in breastfed infants.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Poverty and Paternal Education Associated With Infant Safe Sleep Intentions in a Peri-Urban Community in Ecuador.Global pediatric health · 2021Article
- Obstetricians' and Gynecologists' Communication Practices around Smoking Cessation in Pregnancy, Secondhand Smoke and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS): A Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Applying a Social Exclusion Framework to Explore the Relationship Between Sudden Unexpected Deaths in Infancy (SUDI) and Social Vulnerability.Frontiers in public health · 2020Article
- Sudden infant death and social justice: A syndemics approach.Maternal & child nutrition · 2019Article
- Social Factors Associated with Sudden Unexpected Infant Death.Academic pediatricsArticle
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Abstract
Sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) prevention has focused on modifying individual behavioural risk factors, especially bedsharing. Yet these deaths are most common among poor and marginalized people in wealthy countries, including U.S. Blacks, American Indians/Alaskan Natives, New Zealand Māori, Australian Aborigines, indigenous Canadians, and low-income British people. The United States now has the world's highest prevalence of SUID/SIDS, where even Whites' SIDS prevalence now approaches that of the Māori. Using public databases and the literature, we examine SUID/SIDS prevalence and the following risk factors in selected world populations: maternal smoking, preterm birth, alcohol use, poor prenatal care, sleep position, bedsharing, and formula feeding. Our findings suggest that risk factors cluster in high-prevalence populations, many are linked to poverty and discrimination and have independent effects on perinatal outcomes. Moreover, populations with the world's lowest rates of SUID/SIDS have low income-inequality or high relative wealth, yet have high to moderate rates of bedsharing. Employing syndemics theory, we suggest that disproportionately high prevalence of SUID/SIDS is primarily the result of socially driven, co-occurring epidemics that may act synergistically to amplify risk. SUID must be examined through the lens of structural inequity and the legacy of historical trauma. Emphasis on bedsharing may divert attention from risk reduction from structural interventions, breastfeeding, prenatal care, and tobacco cessation. Medical organizations play an important role in advocating for policies that address the root causes of infant mortality via poverty and discrimination interventions, tobacco control, and culturally appropriate support to families.
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