International migration and adverse birth outcomes: role of ethnicity, region of origin and destination

Autor: Urquia, M. L., Glazier, R. H., Blondel, B., Zeitlin, J., Gissler, M., Macfarlane, A. J., Ng, E., Heaman, M., Stray-Pedersen, B., Gagnon, A. J., for the ROAM Collaboration
Rok vydání: 2009
Předmět:
Research Report
Pediatrics
Epidemiology
Immigration
Ethnic group
Ethnic origin
meta-analysis ME
0302 clinical medicine
Catchment Area
Health
Pregnancy
multilevel modelling
Ethnicity
030212 general & internal medicine
10. No inequality
media_common
Ethnic studies
Pregnancy Outcome
Hispanic or Latino
Emigration and Immigration
female genital diseases and pregnancy complications
Europe
Meta-analysis
population characteristics
Female
medicine.symptom
geographic locations
medicine.medical_specialty
Asia
media_common.quotation_subject
Odds
03 medical and health sciences
030225 pediatrics
medicine
Humans
low birth weight
Africa South of the Sahara
business.industry
Infant
Newborn
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
preterm birth
Infant
Low Birth Weight
medicine.disease
migration and health
perinatal CG
United States
Low birth weight
RG
business
RA
Demography
Zdroj: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2008.083535
Popis: Background: The literature on international migration and birth outcomes shows mixed results. This study examined whether low birth weight (LBW) and preterm birth differed between non-migrants and migrant subgroups, defined by race/ethnicity and world region of origin and destination.\ud \ud Methods: A systematic review and meta-regression analyses were conducted using three-level logistic models to account for the heterogeneity between studies and between subgroups within studies.\ud \ud Results: Twenty-four studies, involving more than 30 million singleton births, met the inclusion criteria. Compared with US-born black women, black migrant women were at lower odds of delivering LBW and preterm birth babies. Hispanic migrants also exhibited lower odds for these outcomes, but Asian and white migrants did not. Sub-Saharan African and Latin-American and Caribbean women were at higher odds of delivering LBW babies in Europe but not in the USA and south-central Asians were at higher odds in both continents, compared with the native-born populations.\ud \ud Conclusions: The association between migration and adverse birth outcomes varies by migrant subgroup and it is sensitive to the definition of the migrant and reference groups.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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