Structural gendered racism and preterm birth inequities in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Structural gendered racism - the "totality of interconnectedness between structural racism and sexism" - is conceptualized as a fundamental cause of the persistent preterm birth inequities experienced by Black and Indigenous people in the United States. Our objective was to develop a state-level latent class measure of structural gendered racism and examine its association with preterm birth among all singleton live births in the US in 2019. Using previously-validated inequity indicators between White men and Black women across 9 domains (education, employment, poverty, homeownership, health insurance, segregation, voting, political representation, incarceration), we conducted a latent profile analysis to identify a latent categorical variable with k number of classes that have similar val

SUBMITTER: Riley T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11473109 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature