Structural racism and health: Assessing the mediating role of community mental distress and health care access in the association between mass incarceration and adverse birth outcomes

Research has linked spatial concentrations of incarceration with racial disparities in adverse birth outcomes. However, little is known about the specific mechanisms of this association. This represents an important knowledge gap in terms of intervention. We theorize two pathways that may account fo...

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Main Authors: Anders Larrabee Sonderlund, Natasha J. Williams, Mia Charifson, Robin Ortiz, Shawnita Sealy-Jefferson, Elaine De Leon, Antoinette Schoenthaler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-12-01
Series:SSM: Population Health
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352827323001945