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Perinatal Outcomes and Nativity: Does Place of Birth Really Influence Infant Health?
Author(s) -
Kirby Russell S.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
birth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.233
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1523-536X
pISSN - 0730-7659
DOI - 10.1111/j.1523-536x.2011.00505.x
Subject(s) - disadvantage , pregnancy , medicine , premature birth , meaning (existential) , demography , psychology , gestational age , sociology , political science , genetics , law , psychotherapist , biology
ABSTRACT: In recent years nativity or nation of origin has become the focus of numerous pregnancy outcome studies. A recent research synthesis found that, although considerable heterogeneity in study designs hinders the development of broad generalizations concerning differences in pregnancy outcomes, migrant women were more likely to have better low‐birthweight and preterm birth outcomes than women born in the receiving country in most of the studies that could be incorporated in the meta‐analysis. Researchers considering studies of migration and pregnancy outcomes should incorporate more comprehensive measures of the migrant experience, as the dichotomous variable born or not born in the receiving country only opens the door to understanding the meaning of empirical observations concerning advantage or disadvantage in outcomes of pregnancy among migrant women. (BIRTH 38:4 December 2011)