Lower neighborhood opportunity may increase risk for preterm birth

A new study has found that more than half of Black and Hispanic infants were born into very low-opportunity neighborhoods, and that babies born into these neighborhoods had a 16-percent greater risk of being born preterm. The study sheds new light on the health consequences of structural racism and historically discriminatory practices — such as redlining and disproportionate exposures to pollutants — that continue to shape modern-day neighborhood conditions and circumstances.
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