Racial residential segregation and adverse birth outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Renee Mehra, Lisa M. Boyd and Jeannette R. Ickovics

Social Science & Medicine, 2017, vol. 191, issue C, 237-250

Abstract: Persistent racial disparities in adverse birth outcomes are not fully explained by individual-level risk factors. Racial residential segregation–degree to which two or more groups live apart from one another–may contribute to the etiology of these birth outcome disparities. Our aim was to assess associations between segregation and adverse birth outcomes by race. This review focused on formal measures of segregation, using Massey and Denton's framework (1998) that identifies five distinct operationalizations of segregation, in addition to proxy measures of segregation such as racial composition, in order to gain a deeper understanding of the operationalizations of segregation most salient for birth outcomes.

Keywords: Residential segregation; Structural racism; Racial composition; Health disparities; Pregnancy outcome; Preterm birth; Low birth weight; Infant mortality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.09.018

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