Historical Redlining, Contemporary Gentrification, and Severe Maternal Morbidity in California, 2005-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Historically redlined neighborhoods may experience disinvestment, influencing their likelihood of gentrification, a process of neighborhood (re-)development that unequally distributes harms and benefits by race and class. Understanding the combined outcomes of redlining and gentrification informs how the mutually constitutive systems of structural racism and racial capitalism affect pregnancy outcomes.

Objective

To examine if historical redlining and contemporary gentrification is associated with increased severe maternal morbidity (SMM) odds.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used data from a statewide population-based sample of all live hospital births at 20 weeks' gestation or more between 2005 and 2018 in California. Analysis

SUBMITTER: Gao X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11420692 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature