![]() ![]() Researchers who are not part of the MIHA team at CDPH or UCSF cannot currently access MIHA data. The authors had access to information that could identify individual respondents multiple procedures, approved by the CDPH and UCSF IRBs, were used to prevent this occurrence. The authors accessed the data because the authors are part of the team of researchers at CDPH and UCSF who designed the survey and oversee its ongoing implementation and development, and who perform analyses deemed of particular interest to CDPH. MIHA data are not the property of the authors they belong to CDPH. They are derived from an ongoing survey of postpartum women in California, the Maternal and Infant Health Assessment (MIHA), conducted by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Program (MCAH), in collaboration with researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: The data used for this study are not publicly available. Received: ApAccepted: SeptemPublished: October 11, 2017Ĭopyright: © 2017 Braveman et al. Ryckman, Univesity of Iowa, UNITED STATES (2017) Worry about racial discrimination: A missing piece of the puzzle of Black-White disparities in preterm birth? PLoS ONE 12(10):Įditor: Kelli K. Without being causally definitive, this study’s findings should stimulate further research and heighten awareness of the potential role of unmeasured social variables, such as diverse experiences of racial discrimination, in racial disparities in health.Ĭitation: Braveman P, Heck K, Egerter S, Dominguez TP, Rinki C, Marchi KS, et al. These dramatic results from a large statewide-representative study add to a growing-but not widely known-literature linking racism-related stress with physical health in general, and shed light on the links between racism-related stress and PTB specifically. Further research should examine a range of experiences of racial discrimination, including not only chronic worry but other psychological and emotional states and both subtle and overt incidents as well. Although the single measure of experiences of racial discrimination used in this study precluded examination of the role of other experiences of racial discrimination, such as overt incidents, it is likely that our findings reflect an association between one or more experiences of racial discrimination and PTB. Chronic worry about racial discrimination may play an important role in Black-White disparities in PTB and may help explain the puzzling and repeatedly observed greater PTB disparities among more socioeconomically-advantaged women.
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