Racial and ethnic disparities in adverse birth outcomes: Differences by racial residential segregation.

ABSTRACT: Racial and ethnic disparities in adverse birth outcomes have persistently been wide and may be explained by individual and area-level factors. Our primary objective was to determine if county-level black-white segregation modified the association between maternal race/ethnicity and adverse birth outcomes using birth records from the National Center for Health Statistics (2012). Based on maternal residence at birth, county-level black-white racial residential segregation was calculated along five dimensions of segregation: evenness, exposure, concentration, centralization, and clustering. We conducted a two-stage analysis: (1) county-specific logistic regression to determine whether maternal race and ethnicity were associated with preterm birth and term low birth weight; and (2) Bayesian me

SUBMITTER: Mehra R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6545386 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature