ArticlePreventive medicine reports2021
Racial and ethnic disparities in birth Outcomes: A decomposition analysis of contributing factors.
Article in Preventive medicine reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed.
- A decomposition analysis to evaluate the role of social, chemical, and neighborhood factors on the Black/White disparity in preterm birth in Greater Houston, Texas.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2026Article
- Very Low Birth Weight Infants Among Latinx Women in the United States: Is the Paradox Lost?Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Among Women with Early Onset Cancer in the United States.Cancers · 2026Article
- Distributions of Adverse Childbearing Experiences Across Racial and Ethnic Groups: A Research Note.Demography · 2025Article
- Persistence of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Adverse Maternal and Birth Outcomes Among Physicians.O&G open · 2025Article
- Are racial and ethnic disparities in brachial plexus birth injuries explained by known risk factors?Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2025Article
- Article
- Women's preconception psychological stress and birth outcomes in a fertility clinic: the EARTH study.Frontiers in global women's health · 2024Article
- Gender differences in depressive symptoms among Chinese older adults based on fairlie decomposition analysis.Heliyon · 2023Article
- Decomposition and comparative analysis of health inequities between the male and female older adults in China: a national cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Perceived stress and markers of ovarian reserve among subfertile women.Reproductive biomedicine online · 2023Observational
- Sex-specific effects of prenatal organophosphate ester (OPE) metabolite mixtures and adverse infant birth outcomes in the maternal and developmental risks from environmental and social stressors (MADRES) pregnancy cohort.Environmental research · 2023Article
- Role of social determinants of health in differential respiratory exposure and health outcomes among children.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Environmental justice burden and Black-White disparities in spontaneous preterm birth in Harris County, Texas.Frontiers in reproductive health · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This study seeks to quantify and rank the contribution of selected factors to the observed racial/ethnic disparities in low-birth-weight births (LBWBs) and preterm births (PTBs). Based on vital statistics data on births to primiparous women and characteristics of mothers in the State of Nebraska during the period of 2005 to 2014 (n = 93,375), unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios were estimated to examine the association between selected variables and the odds of having LBWBs or PTBs. Fairlie decomposition analysis was performed to quantify the contribution of each selected factor to racial/ethnic differences in LBWB and PTB rates. The prevalence of PTBs was 9.1% among non-Hispanic White (NHW) women, as compared to 12.8% among non-Hispanic Black (NHB) women and 10.6% among Hispanic women. The corresponding prevalence of LBWBs in the three groups were 5.9%, 11.9%, and 7.2%, respectively. The higher educational attainment among NHW women, relative to NHB women accounted for 10% of the observed difference in LBWB rate between the two groups. Health insurance coverage was the second most important factor accounting for the observed disparities in birth outcomes. Addressing socioeconomic disadvantages in NHB and Hispanic women would be important for them to narrow their gaps with NHW women in LBWB and PTB prevalence. More research is needed to identify key factors leading to the disparities in birth outcomes between NHW and NHB women.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.