Receipt of routine preventive care among infant daughters and sons of immigrant mothers in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore gender disparities in infant routine preventive care across maternal countries of birth (MCOB) and by mother tongue among infants of Indian-born mothers.

Setting

Retrospective population-based administrative cohort in Ontario, Canada (births between 2002 and 2014).

Participants

350 366 (inclusive) healthy term singletons belonging to families with a minimum of one opposite gender child.

Outcome measures

Fixed effects conditional logistic regression generated adjusted ORs (aORs) for a daughter being underimmunised and having an inadequate number of well-child visits compared with her brother, stratified by MCOB. Moderation by maternal mother tongue was assessed among children to Indian-born mothers.

Results

Underimmunisation and inad

SUBMITTER: Pulver A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7398108 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature