Neighborhood Disadvantage and Birth Outcomes Among Refugees.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the association between neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and birth outcomes among refugee women in Denmark, leveraging a natural experiment.

Methods

This register-based study included 15 118 infants born to women who arrived in Denmark as refugees during 1986 to 1998, when a dispersal policy was in place that quasirandomly assigned newcomers to neighborhoods with varying degrees of socioeconomic disadvantage. Neighborhood disadvantage was measured using a composite index representing neighborhood-level income, education, unemployment, and welfare assistance. These data were linked to individual-level birth register data. Outcomes included low birth weight, preterm birth, and small-for-gestational-age infants. Associations between neighborhood disa

SUBMITTER: Foverskov E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11524041 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature