Associations Between Self-Reported Experiences of Discrimination, Socioeconomic and Racial Polarization, and Birth Outcomes in the Atlanta African American Maternal-Child Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Structural racism measures based on publicly available data alone do not capture the breadth of lived experiences of racism or their impacts. Few studies incorporate measures of lived experience in analyses of structural racism at the neighborhood level. We investigated associations between self-reported experiences of racism, measures of racialized economic segregation at the census tract level (a proxy for structural racism), and birth outcomes among pregnant African American people.

Study design

Participants were enrolled in the Atlanta African American Maternal-Child Cohort (N=297). Experiences of racial and gender discrimination were measured during pregnancy using self-reported, validated questionnaires. The Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) was u

SUBMITTER: Eatman JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12321161 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature