Neighborhood-Level Mass Incarceration and Future Preterm Birth Risk among African American Women

While evidence for neighborhood effects on adverse birth outcomes is growing, no studies have examined whether living in a neighborhood impacted by mass incarceration is associated with preterm birth risk. We used modified Poisson regression to test whether residence in a neighborhood impacted by ma...

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Published in:Journal of urban health 2020-04, Vol.97 (2), p.271-278
Main Authors: Sealy-Jefferson, Shawnita, Butler, Brittney, Price-Spratlen, Townsand, Dailey, Rhonda K., Misra, Dawn P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
African Americans
Age
Birth
Black or African American - psychology
Black or African American - statistics & numerical data
Confidence intervals
Criminal sentences
Epidemiology
Evidence
Expenditures
Female
Fetuses
Health Informatics
Health risks
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Michigan
Neighborhoods
Pregnancy
Pregnant Women - psychology
Premature Birth
Prisoners - psychology
Prisoners - statistics & numerical data
Prisons
Public Health
Residence Characteristics - statistics & numerical data
Risk
Risk Factors
Statistical analysis
Young Adult
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Summary:While evidence for neighborhood effects on adverse birth outcomes is growing, no studies have examined whether living in a neighborhood impacted by mass incarceration is associated with preterm birth risk. We used modified Poisson regression to test whether residence in a neighborhood impacted by mass incarceration predicted future risk of preterm birth, among African American women. We linked data from the Justice Atlas of Sentencing and Corrections to survey and medical record data from the Life-course Influences on Fetal Environments study ( n  = 681). We also tested for effect modification by age and marital status. The association between prison admission expenditures and future risk of PTB varied by maternal age at birth, with younger women (
ISSN:1099-3460
1468-2869
DOI:10.1007/s11524-020-00426-w