Antiracism and positive intergenerational (infant) outcomes: A county-level examination of low birth weight and infant mortality.

ABSTRACT: Racism is associated with negative intergenerational (infant) outcomes. That is, racism, both perceived and structural, is linked to critical, immediate, and long-term health factors such as low birth weight and infant mortality. Antiracism-resistance to racism such as support for the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement-has been linked to positive emotional, subjective, and mental health outcomes among adults and adolescents. To theoretically build on and integrate such past findings, the present research asked whether such advantageous health correlations might extend intergenerationally to infant outcomes? It examined a theoretical/correlational process model in which mental and physical health indicators might be indirectly related to associations between antiracism and infant health outc

SUBMITTER: Brannon TN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11009635 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature