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Title: Role of Maternal Morbidity in Measuring Social Inequality Among Low Birth Weight Children
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Agre, Lynn A. |
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Role of Maternal Morbidity in Measuring Social Inequality Among Low Birth Weight Children Presented: Atlanta, GA, American Public Health Association (APHA) 129th Annual Meeting and Exposition, October 21-25, 2001. Also: http://apha.confex.com/apha/129am/techprogram/paper_30325.htm Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79 Publisher: American Public Health Association Keyword(s): Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Birthweight; Body Mass Index (BMI); Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Mothers, Health; Parent-Child Interaction; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Reading); Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Social Capital Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The goal of this study is to determine the influence of maternal health status on measuring social inequality among low birth weight, using the National Longitudinal Survey on Youth (NLSY) Mother-Child Supplement. Low birth weight has previously been treated as a biological phenomenon, attributed to medical etiological factors, such as incomplete gestational age (less than thirty-seven weeks) due to preterm membrane rupture, preterm labor in singleton births, small for gestational age in twin births and poor maternal prenatal health care inputs, including lack of or substandard prenatal care. The resulting low birth weight population has been assessed for behavioral and cognitive developmental delay. However, social-environmental characteristics included in these outcome studies have concentrated on sociodemographics such as income, maternal education, with some emphasis on social support and cohesive networks. The need to evaluate these developmental outcomes in the social-environmental milieu suggests more than simply the incorporation of wider measures of parent-child relationship quality, and surrounding community-level assets for example, but the call for interactions between maternal health behavior characteristics and social inequalities. This project will first explore the predictors that determine low birth weight. The concept of social capital as a measure of social inequality, captured on the community, family and individual levels, will then be applied to this study population for its moderating effect on child health outcomes followed from birth through age fourteen. Behavioral/mental health problems, cognitive health including performance tests, and physical health, represented as body mass index, will be examined in relation to social capital. |
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Agre, Lynn A. "Role of Maternal Morbidity in Measuring Social Inequality Among Low Birth Weight Children." Presented: Atlanta, GA, American Public Health Association (APHA) 129th Annual Meeting and Exposition, October 21-25, 2001. |