Titre : | Maternal education and adverse birth outcomes among immigrant women to the United States from Eastern Europe : A test of the healthy migrant hypothesis. (2011) |
Auteurs : | JANEVIC (T.) : USA. Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Yale University. New Haven. CT. ; JANEVIC (M.) : USA. Department of Health Behavior and Health Education. University of Michigan School of Public Health. ; SAVITZ (D.A.) : USA. Department of Epidemiology. Brown University. |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 73, n° 3, 2011) |
Pagination : | 429-435 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Mère ; Education ; Enseignement ; Complication ; Naissance ; Migrant ; Femme ; Homme ; Femme enceinte ; Europe de l'Est ; Hypothèse ; Migration ; Grossesse ; Prématurité ; Amérique ; Europe ; Amérique du Nord |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS 98lCR0xA. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Immigrant women to the U.S. often have more favorable birth outcomes than their native-born counterparts, including lower rates of preterm birth and low birth weight, a phenomenon commonly attributed to a healthy migrant effect. However, this effect varies by ethnicity and country of origin. No previous study has examined birth outcomes among immigrants from the post-Communist countries of Eastern Europe, a group which includes both economic migrants and conflict refugees. Using data on 253,363 singletons births from New York City during 1995-2003 we examined the risk of preterm birth (PTB) ( |