| Titre : | Paternal Race/Ethnicity and Birth Outcomes. (2008) |
| Auteurs : | SAI MA (.) : USA. Pardee Rand Graduate School and Department of Population. Family and Reproductive Health. Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Baltimore. MD. |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | American journal of public health (vol. 98, n° 12, 2008) |
| Pagination : | 2285-2292 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Mots-clés : | Père ; Race ; Ethnie ; Naissance ; Pronostic ; Evolution ; Homme |
| Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 78GGR0x8. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objectives. I sought to identify whether there were associations between paternal race/ethnicity and birth outcomes among infants with parents of same-and mixed-races/ethnicities. Methods. Using the National Center for Health Statistics 2001 linked birth and infant death file, I compared birth outcomes of infants of White mothers and fathers of different races/ethnicities by matching and weighting racial/ethnic groups following a propensity scoring approach so other characteristics were distributed identically. I applied the same analysis to infants of Black parents and infants with a Black mother and White father. Results. Variation in risk factors and outcomes was found in infants of White mothers by paternal race/ethnicity. After propensity score weighting, the disparities in outcomes by paternal or parental race/ethnicity could be largely attributed to nonracial parental characteristics. Infants whose paternal race/ethnicity was unreported on their birth certificates had the worst outcomes. Conclusions. The use of maternal race/ethnicity to refer to infant race/ethnicity in research is problematic. The effects of maternal race/ethnicity on birth outcomes are estimated to be much larger than that of paternal race/ethnicity after I controlled for all covariates. Not listing a father on the birth certificate had a strong association with outcomes, which might be a source of bias in existing data and a marker for identifying infants at risk. |
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