The Changing Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Infant Mortality: An Analysis of State Characteristics

Brooks, Charles H.

doi:10.2307/2136878

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“…Therefore, our conclusion is that the lack of an association between childhood health and adult socioeconomic status in older age groups is (partly) caused by a differential reporting bias. The established relationship in older generations between (Adamchak and Stockwell 1978, Antonovsky and Bernstein 1977, Brooks 1975, Clifford and Brennon 1978, Douglas 1964, Morris and heady 1955, Pamuk 1988, Woolf and Waterhouse 1945. This relationship was also found in the Netherlands (Van de Mheen et al 1996, Van Poppel 1982.…”

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Recall Bias in Self‐reported Childhood Health: Differences by Age and Educational Level

Mheen

Stronks

Looman

et al. 1998

Sociology Health & Illness

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This study examines the impact of recall bias on self-reported childhood health. In a population of people aged from 25 to 74 years , childhood health was assessed retrospectively to explore its influence on socio-economic inequalities in adult health. Data were obtained from a postal survey in the baseline of a prospective cohort-study (the Longitudinal Study on Socio-Economic Health Differences in The Netherlands). Childhood health was measured as self-reported periods of severe disease in childhood. Relationships between childhood health on the one hand and adult educational level on the other were analysed using logistic regression models. A negative association between childhood health problems and adult educational level was found in the youngest age group (25-34 years). In the older age groups, however, a lower adult socio-economic status was not clearly associated with more health problems in childhood. In view of what we know about socio-economic inequalities in childhood health in the past, it is likely that the lack of association between educational level and childhood health in the older age groups is (partly) caused by a recall bias. Using simple questions on self-reported childhood health problems, the measurement of childhood health in older age groups will be biased by differential recall between socioeconomic groups. Other possibilities in the use of retrospective data in studying childhood health problems should be explored.

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confidence: 73%

Recall Bias in Self‐reported Childhood Health: Differences by Age and Educational Level

Mheen

Stronks

Looman

et al. 1998

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Recent rcsearch indicates that factors related to class also affect the delivery of maternal and child health care (Garn, Shaw and McCabe, 1977;Brooks, 1975;Kessner, 1973). Although many Mexican immigrant women may share the problems in obtaining health care faced by low-income women generally, immigration status introduces another factor.…”

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Utilization of Health Services by Mexican Immigrant Women in San Diego

1986

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ABSTRACT. The limited empirical data available on maternal health problems among Mexican immigrant women in the United States suggest that they undcrutilize health services, especially general preventive care. Research conducted among legal and undocumented women in the Mexican immigrant population in San Diego, California, support these findings. Among undocumented mothers, 11.5% of their births in the U.S. occurred with no prenatal care or care sought in the third trimester, which is much higher than Mexican women legally in the country (3.6%) and the general San Diego maternal population (3.8%). When we examine births which occurred within the last five years by immigration status, we find that women legally in the country have a much higher rate of cesarean delivery of both undocumented women and women in the general San Dicgo maternal population. Undocumented women in our sample were much less likely than their legal counterparts (a) to return for postpartum examinations for themselves, (b) lo seek neonatal care for their infants, and (c) to have had Pap examinations or carry out breast self-examinations.

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“…The importance of this effort is further evident from the fact that optimum birth outcomes are not distributed evenly across the population. For example, lower socioeconomic and education levels are often associated with more negative birth outcomes, and the rates of low birth weight and infant mortality among blacks are significantly higher than among Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites (Alexander & Comely, 1987;Antonovsky & Bemstein, 1977;Brooks, 1975;Cramer, 1987;Gee, Lee, & Forthofer, 1976;Hummer, 1993). One factor believed to contribute to these differential rates of low birth weight and infant mortality is the different rate of prenatal care use.…”

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The Interactive Effects of Race and Ethnicity and Mother's Residence on the Adequacy of Prenatal Care

Miller

Clarke²,

Albrecht³

et al. 1996

The Journal of Rural Health

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Adequate prenatal care is known to reduce the risks of low birth weight and neonatal death, yet nearly one quarter of all women giving birth in the United States receive delayed, inadequate or no prenatal care. This suboptimal use of prenatal care has contributed to rates of low birth weight and neonatal mortality higher than those in most other industrialized nations. This paper examines the relationships among race/ethnicity, residence, maternal sociodemographic and medical risk characteristics, and use of prenatal care in the United States. Using data from the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey, this study found important differences in prenatal care use by race/ethnicity and residence, as well as interactive effects of these variables. Single marital status, nonmetropolitan residence, poverty, low level of education, and no insurance were more strongly associated with inadequate prenatal care for whites and Hispanics than for blacks. Nonmetropolitan residents were more likely to receive inadequate care, regardless of race/ethnicity or sociodemographic characteristics. Predicted probabilities of prenatal care use by race/ethnicity and residence showed that, regardless of risk, nonmetropolitan Hispanic women had the highest probability of obtaining inadequate prenatal care. Results highlight the continued importance of race/ethnicity and rural residence in determining prenatal care use and the need to design interventions targeted to these populations.

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The Changing Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Infant Mortality: An Analysis of State Characteristics

Cited by 34 publications

References 12 publications

Recall Bias in Self‐reported Childhood Health: Differences by Age and Educational Level

Recall Bias in Self‐reported Childhood Health: Differences by Age and Educational Level

Utilization of Health Services by Mexican Immigrant Women in San Diego

The Interactive Effects of Race and Ethnicity and Mother's Residence on the Adequacy of Prenatal Care

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