Neighbourhood deprivation and very preterm birth in an English and French cohort.
- Bonet, Mercedes
- Smith, Lucy
- Pilkington, Hugo
- Draper, Elizabeth
- Zeitlin, Jennifer
DOIAbstract
International audienceBACKGROUND: Social factors affect the risk of very preterm birth and may affect subsequent outcomes in those born preterm. We assessed the influence of neighbourhood socio-economic characteristics on the risk and outcomes of singleton very preterm birth (<32 weeks of gestation) in two European regions with different health systems. METHODS: Live births (n=1118) from a population-based cohort of very preterm infants in 2003 in Trent (UK) and Ile-de-France (France) regions were geocoded to their neighbourhood census tracts. Odds ratios for very preterm singleton birth by neighbourhood characteristics (unemployment rate, proportion manual workers, proportion with high school education only, non home ownership) were comput...
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