Determinants of infant mortality for children of women prisoners: a longitudinal linked data study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is limited information on the determinants of infant mortality outcomes for the children of women prisoners. This study aimed to explore determinants of infant mortality for Indigenous and non-Indigenous children, with a specific focus on maternal imprisonment during pregnancy as a risk factor.

Methods

Using linked administrative data we obtained a longitudinal sample of 42,674 infants born in Western Australia between October 1985 and June 2013. Data were analysed by maternal contact with corrective services, including; (i) imprisonment during pregnancy, (ii) imprisonment before (but not during) pregnancy, (iii) imprisonment after birth, (iv) community-based correctional orders (but no imprisonment), and (v) no corrections record. Infant mortality rates wer

SUBMITTER: Dowell CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5984779 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature