Pathways of neighbourhood-level socio-economic determinants of adverse birth outcomes
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...We also considered covariates that may co-vary with increased ambient air pollution exposure in these lower-income urban mothers that also may impact birth outcomes including maternal smoking and prenatal psychological stress (Meng et al., 2013)....
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...maternal smoking and prenatal psychological stress (Meng et al., 2013)....
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..., lack of social, familial, and marital support, poverty or financial hardship, physical/verbal abuse, and neighbourhood crime) [12, 24, 26, 54]....
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...buffer the individual-level biological and behavioural factors [24, 26, 54, 128, 224, 225]....
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...lifestyle-associated factors, such as smoking, increase the risk of spontaneous preterm labour [8, 10]....
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...Most studies that introduced geographic variables as risk factors into analyses used non-spatial statistical approaches, including odds ratios, least-squares regression, and multilevel models, with the geographic data serving as one of many explanatory variables [31,32]....
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...Using the SAS PROC FACTOR procedure, a principal component analysis [31] was first conducted on identified person-level risk variables....
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...They may affect a mother’s birth outcomes directly and/or indirectly through the mother’s health behaviour and life style [27]....
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...In addition to environmental influences, socio-economic factors have been consistently identified as some of the most pervasive neighbourhood-level risk factors associated with LBW and PTB incidence [1-4]....
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...; licensee BioMed Central L Commons Attribution License (http://creativec reproduction in any medium, provided the or use of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs, stressful work and living environment, delayed or reduced prenatal care, increased maternal infections, violence and abuse, depression, increased risk of unwanted pregnancy, increased teenage pregnancy, and reduced levels of social and financial support have all been identified as risk factors among low socioeconomic status (SES) groups [4]....
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...Finally, to assess how the total effect (sum of the direct and indirect effects) of exposure to a given neighbourhoodlevel SES-related variable is transferred through the proposed pathways, mediation analyses for binary-outcome models were conducted following the method described by VanderWeele and Vansteelandt [33]....
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...VanderWeele TG, Vansteelandt S: Odds Ratios for Mediation Analysis for a Dichotomous Outcome....
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