Multidimensional structural racism predicts birth outcomes for Black and White Minnesotans.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this study is to determine the linkage between multidimensional structural racism typologies and preterm birth (PTB), low birthweight (LBW), and small-for-gestational-age (SGA) birth among infants of White, US-born Black, and foreign-born Black pregnant people in Minnesota.

Data sources

The measures of structural racism were based on the 2017 American Community Survey 5-year estimates and the 2017 jail incarceration data from the Vera Institute of Justice. Birth outcomes of infants born in 2018 were based on birth records from the Minnesota Department of Health.

Study design

We conducted a latent class analysis to identify multidimensional structural racism typologies in 2017 and related these typologies to birth outcomes of pregnant people

SUBMITTER: Chantarat T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9108042 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature