The Relationship of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Characteristics to Birthweight Among 5 Ethnic Groups in California
Michelle Pearl, PhD,
Paula Braveman, MD, MPH and
Barbara Abrams, DrPH
At the time of the study, Michelle Pearl was with the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health Biology, University of California, Berkeley. Paula Braveman is with the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Barbara Abrams is with the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health Biology, University of California, Berkeley.
FIGURE 1—Relationship of birthweight to neighborhood unemployment among Blacks and Asians in the overall sample, after adjustment for Medi-Cal and mother's education.
FIGURE 2—Relationship of birthweight to neighborhood poverty and unemployment among foreign-born Latinas in overall sample, after adjustment for Medi-Cal and mother's education.