ArticleSSM - population health2022
Highly public anti-Black violence and preterm birth odds for Black and White mothers.
Article in SSM - population health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Place-Based Structural Disadvantage, Lethal Police Violence, and Adverse Birth Outcomes Among Black Birthing People.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2026Article
- Longitudinal Associations From US State/Local Police and Social Service Expenditures to Suicides and Police-Perpetrated Killings Between Black and White Residents.The Milbank quarterly · 2025Article
- Structural barriers to health care as risk factors for preterm and small-for-gestational-age birth among US-born Black and White mothers.Health & place · 2024Article
- Dual pandemics? Assessing associations between area racism, COVID-19 case rates, and mental health among U.S. adults.SSM. Mental health · 2023Article
- Racialized police use of force and birth outcomes.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Highly public anti-Black violence may increase preterm birth in the general population of pregnant women via stress-mediated paths, particularly Black women exposed in early gestation. To examine spillover from racial violence in the US, we included a total of 49 high publicity incidents of the following types: police lethal force toward Black persons, legal decisions not to indict/convict officers involved, and hate crime murders of Black victims. National search interest in these incidents was measured via Google Trends to proxy for public awareness of racial violence. Timing of racial violence was coded in relation to a three-month preconception period and subsequent pregnancy trimesters, with the primary hypothesis being that first trimester exposure is associated with higher preterm birth odds. The national sample included 1.6 million singleton live births to US-born Black mothers and 6.6 million births to US-born White mothers from 2014 to 2017. Using a preregistered analysis plan, findings show that Black mothers had 5% higher preterm birth odds when exposed to any high publicity racial incidents relative to none in their first trimester, and 2-3% higher preterm birth odds with each log
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