ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2020
Longitudinal measures of neighborhood poverty and income inequality are associated with adverse birth outcomes in Texas.
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Abstract
backgroundInequity in adverse birth outcomes between black and white women in the U.S. is persistent, despite decades of research and prevention efforts. Neighborhood environments are plausibly related to pre-pregnancy health and other risk factors for adverse birth outcomes and may help explain black/white inequities. Despite the fact that neighborhoods change over time, most prior work has relied upon cross-sectional measures of neighborhood economic contexts.
methodsWe used birth certificates for non-Hispanic black and white women in Texas (2009-2011, N = 470,896) to examine whether longitudinal measures of neighborhood economic context (poverty and income inequality, based on census tract data from 1990 to 2010) were associated with preterm birth, low birthweight and small-for-gestational-age (SGA) with hierarchical generalized linear models. We also tested whether (1) the longitudinal measures explained black/white inequities or (2) moderated the effect of race on the birth outcomes. Finally, we compared the models with longitudinal measures to models with cross-sectional measures of neighborhood economic context.
resultsLongitudinal measures of neighborhood economic context were associated with all three birth outcomes, but did not explain racial inequities. Except for income inequality and SGA, there was no evidence of moderation by race. Substituting cross-sectional measures of economic context for longitudinal ones resulted in similar findings.
conclusionPolicies that either address structural neighborhood-level economic disadvantage or mitigate the effects of such disadvantage are warranted to improve the health of mothers and prevent adverse birth outcomes.
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