Occurrence of fatal police violence during pregnancy and hazard of preterm birth in California.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Exposure to fatal police violence may play a role in population-level inequities in risk for preterm delivery.

Objective

To evaluate whether exposure to fatal police violence during pregnancy affects the hazard of preterm delivery and whether associations differ by race/ethnicity and fetal sex.

Methods

We leveraged temporal variation in incidents of fatal police violence within census tracts to assess whether occurrence of fatal police violence in a person's tract during pregnancy was associated with increased hazard of extremely (20-27 weeks), early (28-31 weeks), moderate (32-33 weeks), and late (32-36 weeks) preterm delivery in California from 2007 to 2015. We used both death records and the Fatal Encounters database to identify incidents of fatal police

SUBMITTER: Goin DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8243783 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature