Associations between historical redlining and birth outcomes from 2006 through 2015 in California.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite being one of the wealthiest nations, disparities in adverse birth outcomes persist across racial and ethnic lines in the United States. We studied the association between historical redlining and preterm birth, low birth weight (LBW), small-for-gestational age (SGA), and perinatal mortality over a ten-year period (2006-2015) in Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Francisco, California.

Methods

We used birth outcomes data from the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2015. Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) Security Maps developed in the 1930s assigned neighborhoods one of four grades that pertained to perceived investment risk of borrowers from that neighborhood: green (grade A) were considered

SUBMITTER: Nardone AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7413562 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature