ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2023
Racialized police use of force and birth outcomes.
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- Structural racism as a fundamental cause of health inequities: a scoping review.International journal for equity in health · 2025Pooled it
- 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
- Prenatal drug use criminalization and health system avoidance: Evidence from births in Alabama, South Carolina, and Tennessee, 1989-2019.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Ecological Impacts of Structural Racism on Health Disparity Through Its Determinants and Mediating Factors: A Case Study on Low Birthweight in Three Race/Ethnicity Groups in the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Conceptualizing and Measuring Systemic Racism.Annual review of public health · 2025Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo estimate associations between police use of force (PUOF) in local jurisdictions and birth outcomes of Black women compared to White women.
methodsUsing birth records linked to municipal police department data on PUOF incidents, we estimated associations between overall and racialized PUOF and birth outcomes of 75,461 Black women and 278,372 White women across 430 municipalities in New Jersey (2012-2016).
resultsOverall PUOF was not associated with birth outcomes of Black or White women. A 1% increase in racialized PUOF was associated with a 0.06% increase in the odds of low birth weight (β: 0.06; 95% CI: 0.03-0.09) and preterm birth (β: 0.06; 95% CI: 0.03-0.10) among Black women but had no associations with birth outcomes of White women.
conclusionsLack of associations between overall PUOF and birth outcomes coupled with significant associations between racialized PUOF and birth outcomes, among Black women only, is consistent with mounting evidence that structural racism adversely affects the health of Black people in the U.S. POLICY IMPLICATIONS: The findings point to the need to address health inequalities at the structural level.
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