Foreign-born and US-born black women: differences in health behaviors and birth outcomes.
H Cabral, LE Fried, S Levenson… - … Journal of Public …, 1990 - ajph.aphapublications.org
H Cabral, LE Fried, S Levenson, H Amaro, B Zuckerman
American Journal of Public Health, 1990•ajph.aphapublications.orgWe 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.
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.
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.
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