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Risk may relocate.(FYI)(immigrant women and low birth weight)(Brief article)
Immigrant women's risk of having a low-birth-weight infant is more closely related to their country of origin than to the characteristics of their new neighborhood, according to a study of recent immigrants to Canada. (1) In initial analyses of data on more than 22,000 births that occurred in Ontario in 1993-2000, four neighborhood contextual characteristics explained almost half of the variation in birth weight across neighborhoods. However, when the mother's country of origin was taken into account, neighborhood context was not significant; country of origin, on the other hand, was. In a model that controlled for a range of maternal and child characteristics, including the length of time the mother had been in Canada, the odds of having a low-birthweight infant were higher among women from Latin America and the Caribbean, East Asia and the Pacific, South ...
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