Author: Luque-Fernandez Miguel Franco Manuel Gelaye Bizu Schomaker Michael Garitano Ignacio D’Este Catherine Williams Michelle
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISSN: 0393-2990
Source: European Journal of Epidemiology, Vol.28, Iss.12, 2013-12, pp. : 991-999
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Abstract
We describe stillbirth and unemployment rates by autonomous region in Spain and analyse whether women who gave birth in regions with high unemployment rates were more likely to have a stillborn. We designed a multilevel population-based observational study of births from 2007 to 2010. We defined stillbirth as the outcome, individual maternal socioeconomic and pregnancy-related characteristics as covariates, and maternal autonomous region of residence as the contextual covariate. We used mixed-logistic regression models to account for differences across regions. In total, 1,920,235 singleton births and 5,560 stillbirths were included in the study. Women residing in autonomous regions with the highest rates of unemployment had a two-times-greater chance of delivering a stillborn (adjusted OR 2.60; 95 % CI 2.08–3.21). The region where women resided explained 14 % of the total individual differences in the risk of delivering a stillborn. The odds of stillbirth were 1.82 (95 % CI 1.62–2.05) times higher for African-born women than for Spanish-born women and 1.90 (95 % CI 1.68–2.15) times higher for women with low educational attainment than for women with higher education. In conclusion, regional disparities in stillbirth rates in Spain in the period 2007–2010 were mainly associated with mothers who had low levels of education, were African-born, and lived in regions with higher unemployment.
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