Racial residential segregation impacts on low birth weight using improved neighborhood boundary definitions

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 239-249

  Grady, Sue C ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated zone design; Low birth weight; Neighborhoods and health; Racial residential segregation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; POVERTY; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGISTER; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SMOKING;

ADULT; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; MATERNAL WELFARE; MICHIGAN; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649636454     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Acevedo-Garcia D. Residential segregation and the epidemiology of infectious diseases. Soc Sci Med 2000, 51:1143-1161.
2. Acevedo-Garcia D. Zip code level risk factors for tuberculosis: neighborhood environment and residential segregation, New Jersey, 1985-1992. Am J Public Health 2001, 91:734-741.
3. Bell J.F., Zimmerman F.J., Almgren G.R., Mayer J.D., Huebner C.E. Birth outcomes among urban African American women: a multilevel analysis of the role of racial residential segregation. Soc Sci Med 2006, 63:3030-3045.
4. Burka S.L., Brennan R.T., Rich-Edwards J.W., Raudenbush S.W., Earls F. Neighborhood support and birth weight for urban infants. Am J Epidemiol 2003, 157(1):1-8.
5. Cockings S., Martin D. Zone design for environment and health studies using pre-aggregated data. Soc Sci Med 2005, 60:2729-2742.
6. Draper D. Inference and hierarchical modeling in the social sciences. J Educ Behav Stat 1995, 20(2):115-147.
7. Elenkov I.J., Chrousos G.P. Stress, cytokine patterns and susceptibility to disease. Clin Endocrineol Metab 1999, 13(4):583-595.
8. Ellen I.G. Is segregation bad for our health? The case of low birthweight. Papers on urban affairs 2000, 203-239. Brookings Institute Press, Washington, DC. W.G. Gale, J.R. Pack (Eds.).
9. English P.B., Kharrazi M., Davies S., Scalf R., Waller L., Neutra R. Changes in the spatial pattern of low birth weight in a southern California county: the role of individual and neighborhood level factors. Soc Sci Med 2002, 56:2073-2088.
10. Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) Retrieved on April 15, 2010 from http://www.esri.com/.
11. Flowerdew R., Manley D.J., Sabel C.E. Neighbourhood effects on health: does it matter where you draw the boundaries?. Soc Sci Med 2008, 66:1241-1255.
12. Geronimus A.T. Black/white differences in the relationship of maternal age to birth weight: a population-based test of the weathering hypothesis. Soc Sci Med 1992, 42:589-597.
13. Getis A., Ord J.K. The analysis of spatial association by use of distance statistics. Geogr Anal 1994, 24:189-206.
14. Gibbs R.S., Romero R., Hillier S.L., Eschenbach D.A., Sweet R.L. A review of premature birth and sublcinical infection. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1992, 166:1515-1528.
15. Grady S.C. Racial disparities in low birthweight and the contribution of residential segregation: a multilevel analysis. Soc Sci Med 2006, 63:3013-3029.
16. Grady S.C., McLafferty S. Segregation, nativity, and health: reproductive health inequalities for immigrant and native-born black women in New York City. Urban Geogr 2007, 28:377-397.
17. Grady S.C., Ramirez I. Mediating medical risk factors in the residential segregation and low birth weight relationship by race in New York City. Health Place 2008, 14:661-667.
18. Hack M., Klein N., Taylor G. Long-term development outcomes of low birth weight infants. Future Child 1995, 5(1):1-21.
19. Hox J. Multilevel modeling: when and why. In: Balderjahn I, Mather R, Schader M, editors. Classification, data analysis, and data highways. New York: Springer Verlag; 1998. p. 147-54. In: Subramanian SV, Jones K, Duncan C, editors. Multilevel methods for public health research. Kawachi I, Berkman LF, editors. Neighborhoods and health. New York: Oxford University Press; 2003. p. 65-111.
20. Institute of Medicine, Committee to Study the Prevention of Low Birth Weight, 1985.
21. Jargowsky P.A. Poverty and place: ghettos, barrios and the American city 1997, Russell Sage, New York.
22. Kramer MR, Houge C. What causes racial disparities in very preterm birth? A biosocial perspective. Epidemiol Rev 2009a. doi:10.1093/epirev/mxp003.
23. Kramer M.R., Houge C. Is segregation bad for your health?. Epidemiol Rev 2009, 31:178-194.
24. Kreft IGG. Are multilevel techniques necessary? An overview including simulation studies. Los Angeles: California State University Press; 1996. In: Subramanian SV, Jones K, Duncan C, editors. Multilevel methods for public health research. Kawachi I, Berkman LF, editors. Neighborhoods and health. New York: Oxford University Press; 2003. p. 65-111.
25. Lee J, Wong DWS, editors. Statistical analysis with ArcView GIS. New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc.; 2001. p. 172-74.
26. Martin D. Developing the automated zoning procedure to reconcile incompatible zoning systems. Int J Geogr Inform Sci 2003, 17(2):181-196.
27. Martin D. Retrieved on April 15, 2010 from http://www2.geog.soton.ac.uk.
28. Masi C.M., Hawkley L.C., Piotrowski Z.H., et al. Neighborhood economic disadvantage, violent crime, group density, and pregnancy outcomes in a diverse, urban population. Soc Sci Med 2007, 65(12):2440-2457.
29. Mason S.M., Messer L.C., Laraia B.A., et al. Segregation and preterm birth: the effects of neighborhood racial composition in North Carolina. Health Place 2009, 15(1):1-9.
30. Massey D.S., Denton N. Hypersegregation in US metropolitan areas: black and hispanic segregation along five dimensions. Demography 1989, 26(3):373-391.
31. Massey D.S., Fischer M.J. How segregation concentrates poverty. Ethnic Racial Stud 2000, 23(4):670-691.
32. Michigan Department of Community Health, retrieved on April 10, 2010 from http://www.michigan.gov.
33. Messer L.C., Kaufman J.S., Dole N., et al. Neighborhood crime, deprivation and preterm birth. Ann Epidemiol 2006, 16(60):455-462.
34. Messer LC, Oakes JM, Mason S. Effects of socioeconomic and racial residential segregation on preterm birth: a cautionary tale of structural confounding. Am J Epidemiol 2010. doi:10.1093/aje/kwp435.
35. Moodley P., Sturm A.W. Sexually transmitted infections, adverse pregnancy outcome and neonatal infection. Semin Neonatol 2000, 5(3):255-269.
36. Oaks J.M. Commentary: advancing neighbourhood-effects research-selection, inferential support, and structural confounding. Int J Epidemiol 2006, 35(3):643-647.
37. O'Campo P., Xue X., Wang W.-C., O'Brian Caughy M. Neighborhood risk factors for low birth weight in Baltimore: a multilevel analysis. Am J Public Health 1997, 87:1113-1118.
38. Openshaw S. A geographical solution to scale and aggregation problems in region-building, partitioning and spatial modeling. Trans Inst Br Geogr, New Ser 1977, 2(4):459-472.
39. Openshaw S. The modifiable areal unit problem. CATMOG 38 1984, Geo Books, Norwich.
40. Osypuk T.L., Acevedo-Garcia D. Are racial disparities in preterm birth larger in hypersegregated areas?. Am J Epidemiol 2008, 167(11):1295-1304.
41. Paneth N., Wllenstein S., Kiely J.L., Susser M. Social class indicators and mortality in low birth weight infants. Am J Epidemiol 1982, 116(2):364-375.
42. Picket K., Pearl M. Multilevel analyses of neighbourhood socioeconomic context and health outcomes: a critical review. J Epidemiol Commun Health 2001, 55(2):111-122.
43. Raudenbush S.W., Bryk A.S. Hierarchical linear models 2002, Sage Publications, London.
44. Reardon S.F., Sullivan D.O. Measures of spatial segregation. Sociol Methodol 2004, 34:121-162.
45. Riva M, Apparicio P, Gauvin L, Brodeur J. Establishing the soundness of administrative spatial units for operationalising the active living potential of residential environments: an exemplar for designing optimal zones. Int J Health Geogr 2008;7:43. []. doi:10.1186/1476-072X-7-43.
46. Roberts E.M. Neighborhood social environments and the distribution of low birth weight in Chicago. Am J Public Health 1997, 87:597-603.
47. Scientific Software Inc. Retrieved on January 15, 2010 from http://www.ssicentral.com/.
48. Stafford M., Duke-Williams O., Shelton N. Small area inequalities in health: are we underestimating them?. Soc Sci Med 2008, 67:891-899.
49. Subramanian S.V., Jones K., Duncan C. Multilevel methods for public health research. Neighborhoods and health 2003, 65-111. Oxford University Press, New York. I. Kawachi, L.F. Berkman (Eds.).
50. US Bureau of the Census, 2000. Retrieved on July 1, 2010 from http://www.census.gov/.
51. Uscher-Pines L., Hanlon A.L., Nelson D.B. Racial differences in bacterial vaginosis among pregnant women: the relationship between demographic and behavioral predictors and individual BV-related microorganism levels. Maternal Child Health 2009, 13(4):512-519.
52. Williams D.R., Collins C. Racial residential segregation: a fundamental cause of racial disparities in health. Public Health Rep 2001, 116:404-418.
53. Wong D.W. Modeling local segregation: a spatial interaction approach. Geogr Environ Model 2002, 6:81-97.
54. Xu J., Holzman C.B., Arvidson C.G., Chung H., Geopfert A.R. Midpregnancy vaginal fluid defensins, bacterial vaginosis, and risk of preterm delivery. Obstet Gynecol 2008, 112(3):524-531.