Birth and prenatal care outcomes of Latina mothers in the Trump era: Analysis by nativity and country/region of origin.

Autor: Gutierrez C; Department of Public Policy, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America., Dollar NT; Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 Mar 01; Vol. 18 (3), pp. e0281803. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Mar 01 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281803
Abstrakt: 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.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2023 Gutierrez, Dollar. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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