Neighborhood Incarceration Rates and Adverse Birth Outcomes in New York City, 2010-2014.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The US has high rates of adverse birth outcomes, with substantial racial disparities augmented by stress and neighborhood disadvantage. Black people are more likely to live in neighborhoods with high rates of incarceration, which is a source of both stress and neighborhood disadvantage and, thus, may contribute to adverse birth outcomes.

Objective

To determine whether neighborhoods with high incarceration rates also have higher rates of adverse birth outcomes compared with neighborhoods with lower rates.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used publicly available data from the New York City Department of Health (2010-2014). Censored Poisson regression, with the US Census tract as the unit of analysis, was used to examine the associa

SUBMITTER: Holaday LW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10066462 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature