Social disadvantage and its effect on maternal and newborn health

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• Alternative Title:
  Semin Perinatol
• Personal Author:
  Barfield, Wanda D.
• Description:
  Social disadvantage impacts the health of women and newborns throughout the life course. Contributing factors such as low educational attainment, unemployment, poverty, and lack of health insurance disproportionately affects minority women of reproductive age in the United States. This article reviews social disadvantage as it contributes to health status and health disparities for mothers and newborns in the United States and highlights the opportunities to improve social and structural determinants of health to address these gaps.
• Subjects:
  • Educational Status
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant Health
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Minority Groups
  • Mothers
  • Poverty
  • United States
• Keywords:
  • Socio-economic status
  • Racism
  • Disparities
  • Social determinants of health
  • Poverty
  • Maternal health
• Source:
  Semin Perinatol. 45(4):151407
• Pubmed ID:
  33896599
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11362982
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  45
• Issue:
  4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/160700/cdc_160700_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 635.08 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:ea7e2805ccd94a4b3793170d40302be2004eea5067199c0ff2b32bc0902429c1258e10780f26c8bc24e071caf6fc764a4efaed23f75560087187e1bb5b232bba