Foreign-born and US-born black women: differences in health behaviors and birth outcomes.
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 80 (1), 70-72
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.80.1.70
Abstract
We studied health behaviors and birth outcome among 201 foreign-born and 616 US-born Black women receiving prenatal care at Boston City Hospital. Foreign-born women had better pre-pregnancy nutritional status and prenatal health behaviors, and their infants had greater intrauterine growth. Black women are not a homogeneous group; culture and ethnicity, in addition to other variables, must be considered in the study of their birth outcomes.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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