The differential association between education and infant mortality by nativity status of chinese american mothers: A life-course perspective

Q. Li and L.G. Keith

American Journal of Public Health, 2011, vol. 101, issue 5, 899-908

Abstract: Objectives. Integrating evidence from demography and epidemiology, we investigated whether the association between maternal achieved status (education) and infant mortality differed by maternal place of origin (nativity) over the life course of Chinese Americans. Methods. We conducted a population-based cohort study of singleton live births to US-resident Chinese American mothers using National Center for Health Statistics 1995 to 2000 linked live birth and infant death cohort files. We categorized mothers by nativity (US born [n=15040] or foreign born [n=150620]) and education (≥16 years, 13-15 years, or ≤12 years), forming 6 life-course trajectories. We performed Cox proportional hazards regressions of infant mortality. Results. We found significant nativity-by-education interaction via stratified analyses and testing interaction terms (P

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.186916

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