TY  - CHAP
AB  - Blacks are more likely than white, in the United States, to experience a stillbirth. In this study, I use a structural perspective of race to create a heuristic model that combines medical and social epidemiological explanations to understand the racial disparity in stillbirths. Using data from the National Maternal and Infant Health Survey 1988 (NMIHS), I examine whether racial disparities in stillbirths can be explained by medical and social epidemiological variables. My findings show that medical and social epidemiological explanations do little to reduce the racial disparity. However, many medical model variables were important predictors of stillbirths including multiple gestations, being overweight, obesity, vaginal bleeding, advanced maternal age, and parity.
VL  - 28
SN  - 978-1-84950-715-8, 978-1-84950-714-1/0275-4959
DO  - 10.1108/S0275-4959(2010)0000028009
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0275-4959(2010)0000028009
AU  - Dryfhout Vicki
ED  - Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
PY  - 2010
Y1  - 2010/01/01
TI  - Racial disparities in stillbirths
T2  - The Impact of Demographics on Health and Health Care: Race, Ethnicity and Other Social Factors
T3  - Research in the Sociology of Health Care
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 151
EP  - 174
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -