US-Born Black Women and Black Immigrant Women: an Exploration of Disparities in Health Care and Sociodemographic Factors Related to Low Birth Weight

Purpose This study explores whether nativity differences in health care and sociodemographic factors help to account for nativity differences in low birth weight (LBW) when comparing US-born Black women (USBW) to Black Immigrant women (BIW). Methods Bivariate analyses and multinomial nested logit (M...

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Published in:Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 2023-12, Vol.10 (6), p.3031-3038
Main Authors: Clay, Shondra Loggins, Ibe-Lamberts, Kelechi, Kelly, Kelsie D., Nii-Aponsah, Harold, Woodson, Markisha J., Tines, Francesca, Mehdi, Syed Abbas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Birth weight
Bivariate analysis
Black people
Childbirth & labor
Clinical outcomes
Delivery of Health Care
Educational attainment
Emigrants and Immigrants
Epidemiology
Female
Health care
Health disparities
Health services
Humans
Immigrants
Infant, Low Birth Weight
Infant, Newborn
Infants
Low birth weight
Marital status
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Polls & surveys
Poverty
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Outcome
Premature birth
Public health
Quality of Life Research
Racial differences
Racial discrimination
Social Inequality
Social Structure
Sociodemographic Factors
Sociodemographics
Socioeconomic factors
Statistical analysis
Variables
Women
Womens health
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Summary:Purpose This study explores whether nativity differences in health care and sociodemographic factors help to account for nativity differences in low birth weight (LBW) when comparing US-born Black women (USBW) to Black Immigrant women (BIW). Methods Bivariate analyses and multinomial nested logit (MNL) models were performed using the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) dataset. Results Statistically significant nativity differences between USBW and BIW were found across variables of LBW ( p  = .009), marital status ( p  
ISSN:2197-3792
2196-8837
DOI:10.1007/s40615-022-01477-2