Perinatal health inequalities between Canadian-born and foreign-born women in Canada: a decomposition analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Foreign-born mothers are generally believed to experience better perinatal outcomes than Canadian-born mothers, despite relatively lower socioeconomic status. However, the magnitude and direction of inequalities by nativity status vary across outcomes. Little is known about factors contributing to the health inequalities by nativity status across different perinatal outcomes. Thus, we aim to examine the direction and magnitude of inequalities by nativity status across perinatal outcomes and estimate the contributions of select individual-level characteristics to the inequalities in Canada.

Methods

Using 132 639 singleton births from the 2016 Canadian Birth-Census Cohort, we estimated the risk of preterm birth (PTB), small-for-gestational-age (SGA) and large-for-ge

SUBMITTER: Alcantara M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12314977 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature