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Birth and prenatal care outcomes of Latina mothers in the Trump era: Analysis by nativity and country/region of origin
We examined whether and how birth outcomes and prenatal care utilization among Latina mothers changed over time across years associated with the Trump sociopolitical environment, using restricted-use birth records from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). To assess potential variation a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9977052/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36857329 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281803 |
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description | We examined whether and how birth outcomes and prenatal care utilization among Latina mothers changed over time across years associated with the Trump sociopolitical environment, using restricted-use birth records from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). To assess potential variation among subpopulations, we disaggregated the analyses by maternal nativity and country/region of origin. Our results indicate that both US- and foreign-born Latina mothers experienced increasingly higher risks of delivering low birthweight (LBW) and preterm birth (PTB) infants over the years associated with Trump’s political career. Among foreign-born Latinas, adverse birth outcomes increased significantly among mothers from Mexico and Central America but not among mothers from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and South America. Levels of inadequate prenatal care utilization remained largely unchanged among groups who saw increases in LBW and PTB, suggesting that changes in prenatal care did not generally explain the observed worsening of birth outcomes among Latina mothers during the Trump era. Results from this study draw attention to the possibility that the Trump era may have represented a source of chronic stress among the Latinx population in the US and add to the growing body of literature linking racism and xenophobia in the sociopolitical environment to declines in health among Latinx people, especially among targeted groups from Mexico and Central America. |
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spelling | pubmed-99770522023-03-02 Birth and prenatal care outcomes of Latina mothers in the Trump era: Analysis by nativity and country/region of origin Gutierrez, Carmen Dollar, Nathan T. PLoS One Research Article We examined whether and how birth outcomes and prenatal care utilization among Latina mothers changed over time across years associated with the Trump sociopolitical environment, using restricted-use birth records from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). To assess potential variation among subpopulations, we disaggregated the analyses by maternal nativity and country/region of origin. Our results indicate that both US- and foreign-born Latina mothers experienced increasingly higher risks of delivering low birthweight (LBW) and preterm birth (PTB) infants over the years associated with Trump’s political career. Among foreign-born Latinas, adverse birth outcomes increased significantly among mothers from Mexico and Central America but not among mothers from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and South America. Levels of inadequate prenatal care utilization remained largely unchanged among groups who saw increases in LBW and PTB, suggesting that changes in prenatal care did not generally explain the observed worsening of birth outcomes among Latina mothers during the Trump era. Results from this study draw attention to the possibility that the Trump era may have represented a source of chronic stress among the Latinx population in the US and add to the growing body of literature linking racism and xenophobia in the sociopolitical environment to declines in health among Latinx people, especially among targeted groups from Mexico and Central America. Public Library of Science 2023-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9977052/ /pubmed/36857329 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281803 Text en © 2023 Gutierrez, Dollar https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Gutierrez, Carmen Dollar, Nathan T. Birth and prenatal care outcomes of Latina mothers in the Trump era: Analysis by nativity and country/region of origin |
title | Birth and prenatal care outcomes of Latina mothers in the Trump era: Analysis by nativity and country/region of origin |
title_full | Birth and prenatal care outcomes of Latina mothers in the Trump era: Analysis by nativity and country/region of origin |
title_fullStr | Birth and prenatal care outcomes of Latina mothers in the Trump era: Analysis by nativity and country/region of origin |
title_full_unstemmed | Birth and prenatal care outcomes of Latina mothers in the Trump era: Analysis by nativity and country/region of origin |
title_short | Birth and prenatal care outcomes of Latina mothers in the Trump era: Analysis by nativity and country/region of origin |
title_sort | birth and prenatal care outcomes of latina mothers in the trump era: analysis by nativity and country/region of origin |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9977052/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36857329 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281803 |
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