US county-level prevalence and spatial distribution of optimal birth outcomes 2018-2019.

ABSTRACT: A shift in focus towards healthy reproductive outcomes may reveal opportunities for novel interventions and strategies to promote optimal health. Using variables from the National Center for Health Statistics restricted use natality files, we calculated Empirical Bayes smoothed (EBS) rates of optimal birth for the all live births-both overall and by maternal race/ethnicity-by applying the smoothing tool in GeoDa version 1.18.0.10 We defined counties achieving greater racial birth equity as those where the overall EBS optimal birth rate was greater than the national 75th percentile and the absolute difference between maternal racial/ethnic categories was smaller than the national 25th percentile difference. During the study period, 49.80% of overall births could be classified as an optimal

SUBMITTER: Dyer L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9529881 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature