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Immigrant women show better birth outcomes: study of New York City births.(Obstetrics)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Better birth outcomes among pregnant foreign-born women in New York City compared with U.S.-born women varied considerably by country of origin, with more problems in babies born to Jamaican women and fewer problems in Chinese babies, Vani R. Bettegowda said.
Despite receiving less prenatal care in the first trimester than U.S.-born women, foreign-born women had lower rates of multiple births, low-birth-weight infants, and infant mortality in a study of New York City births from 1992 to 2001, she reported at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association.
Strong social and familial networks among immigrants may play a beneficial role in birth outcomes; however, further research is needed between U.S.-born and foreign-born women, according to Ms. Bettegowda of New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Previous reports of better birth outcomes for foreign-born women prompted the current study, which took a closer look at demographic characteristics. "It is important to examine the differences by country of origin in addition to foreign-born status," she said. This may provide clues to behavioral, cultural, or psychosocial factors that could contribute to better birth outcomes.
More than half of the approximately 124,000 live births in New York City in 2001 were to foreign-born women, twice the rate seen in the United States as a whole. Although women from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica accounted for a third of immigrant births in the city in 1992, by 2001 the largest proportions of immigrant births were to women from the Dominican Re public, Mexico, and China, accounting for nearly a third of live births.
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