Birthweight of children of immigrants by maternal duration of residence in the United States.
Birthweight of children of immigrants by maternal duration of residence in the United States.
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按母亲在美国居住时间划分的移民儿童的出生体重。
DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.03.038
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2012
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Reichman,NancyE
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Teitler,JulienO;Hutto,Nathan;Reichman,NancyE
美国一份关于移民健康的大型文献表明，移民往往比留在原籍国的人和同一种族或民族的东道国本地人更健康，寿命也更长。然而，这种移民的健康优势似乎随着在美国居住的时间而减弱。关于移民在美国的影响的研究很少集中在围产期健康上。这项研究使用了三个当代的国家数据集来描述婴儿出生体重按母亲在美国居住的时间长短的模式。对于整个移民，特别是西班牙裔移民，低出生体重率在美国的头几年似乎有所下降，此后又有所上升。这种曲线关系在三个数据集上都很稳定，与移民健康随着时间的推移单调下降的流行观念有所背离。此外，我们没有发现任何证据表明产前物质的使用量随着在美国居住的时间的延长而增加。
A large literature on immigrant health in the U.S. has shown that immigrants tend to be healthier and live longer than both individuals who remain in their countries of origin and natives of their host countries who are of the same race or ethnicity. However, this immigrant health advantage appears to diminish with duration of residence in the U.S. Few studies of the effects of immigrants’ exposure to the U.S. have focused on perinatal health. This study used three contemporary national datasets to describe patterns in infant birthweight by maternal duration of residence in the U.S. For both immigrants overall and Hispanic immigrants in particular, rates of low birthweight appeared to decline over the first few years in the U.S. and increase thereafter. This curvilinear association was robust across the three datasets and deviates somewhat from the prevailing notion that immigrant health declines monotonically over time. Additionally, we found no evidence that prenatal substance use increased with duration of residence in the U.S.