Estimating racial health disparities among adverse birth outcomes as deviations from the population rates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite significant research, the reasons for racial health disparities among adverse birth outcomes (ABO) remain largely unknown. The bulk of research into racial health disparities among ABO in the United States has concentrated on the risk of race and ethnic groups relative to the specific sub-population of non-Hispanic white women and their children. The objective of this study was to estimate the racial and ethnic risks among a set of neonatal and maternal health disparities while minimizing bias attributable to how the baseline risk was established.

Methods

All birth records were obtained from the United States Natality database for the years 2014 to 2017. A Bayesian modeling approach was used to estimate the risk disparity for disorders by race. The estimat

SUBMITTER: Thompson JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7069047 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature