Neighborhood crime, deprivation, and preterm birth

LC Messer, JS Kaufman, N Dole, DA Savitz… - Annals of …, 2006 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: Significant racial disparity in preterm birth (PTB; birth at< 37 weeks' gestation)
exists, poorly explained by Individual-level factors. This research explores whether …

Neighborhood economic disadvantage, violent crime, group density, and pregnancy outcomes in a diverse, urban population

CM Masi, LC Hawkley, ZH Piotrowski… - Social science & medicine, 2007 - Elsevier
Prior research has established associations between pregnancy outcomes and specific
neighborhood characteristics, including economic disadvantage, violent crime, and …

Neighborhood deprivation and preterm birth among non-Hispanic Black and White women in eight geographic areas in the United States

P O'Campo, JG Burke, J Culhane, IT Elo… - American journal of …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Disparities in preterm birth by race and ethnic group have been demonstrated in the United
States. Recent research has focused on the impact of neighborhood context on racial …

Association of residence in high–police contact neighborhoods with preterm birth among Black and White individuals in Minneapolis

RR Hardeman, T Chantarat, ML Smith… - JAMA network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Police contact may have negative psychological effects on pregnant people, and
psychological stress has been linked to preterm birth (ie, birth at< 37 weeks' gestation) …

[HTML][HTML] Violent crime exposure classification and adverse birth outcomes: a geographically-defined cohort study

LC Messer, JS Kaufman, N Dole, A Herring… - International journal of …, 2006 - Springer
Background Area-level socioeconomic disparities have long been associated with adverse
pregnancy outcomes. Crime is an important element of the neighborhood environment …

Metropolitan isolation segregation and Black–White disparities in very preterm birth: A test of mediating pathways and variance explained

MR Kramer, HL Cooper, CD Drews-Botsch… - Social science & …, 2010 - Elsevier
Residential isolation segregation (a measure of residential inter-racial exposure) has been
associated with rates of preterm birth (< 37 weeks gestation) experienced by Black women …

Segregation and preterm birth: the effects of neighborhood racial composition in North Carolina

SM Mason, LC Messer, BA Laraia, P Mendola - Health & Place, 2009 - Elsevier
Epidemiologic research suggests that racial segregation is associated with poor health
among blacks in the United States (US). We used geocoded birth records and US census …

Effects of socioeconomic and racial residential segregation on preterm birth: a cautionary tale of structural confounding

LC Messer, JM Oakes, S Mason - American journal of …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Confounding associated with social stratification or other selection processes has been
called structural confounding. In the presence of structural confounding, certain covariate …

Race and ethnic differences in determinants of preterm birth in the USA: broadening the social context

PB Reagan, PJ Salsberry - Social science & medicine, 2005 - Elsevier
Preterm births occur in 9.7% of all US singleton births. The rate for blacks is double that of
whites and the rate is 25% higher for Hispanics than for whites. While a number of individual …

Are racial disparities in preterm birth larger in hypersegregated areas?

TL Osypuk, D Acevedo-Garcia - American journal of …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The causes of the racial/ethnic disparity in preterm birth (PTB) remain largely unknown;
traditional risk factors such as smoking and prenatal care fail to account for it. The authors …