Inequality, green spaces, and pregnant women: Roles of ethnicity and individual and neighbourhood socioeconomic status

• Published in: Environment international Vol. 71; pp. 101 - 108
• Main Authors: Dadvand, Payam, Wright, John, Martinez, David, Basagaña, Xavier, McEachan, Rosemary R.C., Cirach, Marta, Gidlow, Christopher J., de Hoogh, Kees, Gražulevičienė, Regina, Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.10.2014; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Birth weight; Birth Weight - physiology; education; Environment; Environment. Living conditions; Environmental pollutants toxicology; Ethnicity; Female; Fetal Development - physiology; Green space; Humans; Inequality; Infant, Newborn; Male; Medical sciences; nationalities and ethnic groups; normalized difference vegetation index; Pregnancy; pregnancy outcome; Pregnancy Outcome - ethnology; pregnant women; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Regression Analysis; Residence Characteristics - statistics & numerical data; satellites; Social Class; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic status; Toxicology; United Kingdom; United Kingdom - epidemiology; White People; United Kingdom; Europe; British Isles; SES; Green space; IMD; Socioeconomic status; PHENOTYPE; NDVI; Pregnancy; Ethnicity; PM2.5; TM; BiB; LSOA; Birth weight; EOSDIS; Inequality; Social environment; Human; Social influence; Ethnic origin; Proximity; Green area; Residential neighborhoods; Ethnic group; Residential zone; Urbanization; Adult; Female; Woman; Social aspect

Evidence of the impact of green spaces on pregnancy outcomes is limited with no report on how this impact might vary by ethnicity. We investigated the association between residential surrounding greenness and proximity to green spaces and birth weight and explored the modification of this associatio...