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Record W4392255795 · doi:10.22374/cjmrp.v22i1.8

Racism and Pregnancy Health in Hamilton, Ontario

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Luseadra McKerracher, Tina Moffat, Mary Barker, Tracey Galloway, Deborah M. Sloboda

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Midwifery Research and Practice · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicFood Security and Health in Diverse Populations
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
FundersMcMaster University
KeywordsRacismPregnancyObstetricsSociologyMedicineGender studiesBiologyGenetics

Abstract

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Eliminating health inequities through reconfiguring major social determinants of health, includingdiscriminatory exclusion from access to power and material resources during early life stages like pregnancy,are among Canada’s policy and health provision priorities. To date, though, the role of racism in determiningpregnancy or downstream health in Canada has been underexplored.We investigated whether each of seven pregnancy health/health experiences indicators wasassociated with a proxy for racialization (implicitly, racism) and/or newcomer-to-Canada status, usinglogistic regression models fit to questionnaire responses from 300 pregnant people from Hamilton,Ontario. Quantitative analyses were contextualized with thematic data from focus group discussions(FGDs) with 63 pregnant/new parent and/or care provider (e.g., midwife) participants.Racialization, sometimes compounded by intersecting newcomer-to-Canada status, was associatedwith twofold-plus increased odds of reporting four pregnancy health/health experiences indicators:complications, inadequate weight gain, low general self-efficacy, and perceived decline in overall healthduring pregnancy. Yet, while poverty and immigration emerged from FGDs as themes salient to pregnancyhealth, racism did not.Racialization predicts adverse pregnancy health/health experiences in this sample, despite Hamiltonians’tendency to discount racism as determining pregnancy health. More aggressively antiracist, intersectional,poverty-reducing policies are needed in Canada to ameliorate pregnancy inequities and promote healthequity. RÉSUMÉL’élimination des inégalités en matière de santé par la reconfiguration des principaux déterminantssociaux de la santé, y compris l’exclusion discriminatoire de l’accès au pouvoir et aux ressources matériellesau cours des premiers stades de la vie, comme la grossesse, compte parmi les priorités du Canada enmatière de prestation de soins et de politique. Cependant, jusqu’à présent, le rôle du racisme comme facteurdéterminant de la santé durant la grossesse ou en aval au pays est peu exploré.Nous avons examiné l’association entre chacun des sept indicateurs relatifs à l’expérience de la santédurant la grossesse et un substitut pour la racisation (implicitement, le racisme) et/ou le statut de nouvellearrivante ou nouvel arrivant au Canada. Nous avons appliqué des modèles de régression logistique auxréponses données à un questionnaire par 300 personnes enceintes de Hamilton, en Ontario. Les analysesquantitatives ont été contextualisées avec des données thématiques issues de discussions de groupemenées avec 63 participantes et participants (personnes enceintes, nouveaux parents ou fournisseuses etfournisseurs de soins [p. ex., des sages-femmes]).Parfois aggravée par le statut de nouvelle arrivante ou de nouvel arrivant au Canada, la racisation aété associée à une possibilité deux fois plus grande de signalement de problèmes en lien avec quatreindicateurs relatifs à l’expérience de la santé durant la grossesse : des complications, une prise de poidsinadéquate, un faible sentiment d’efficacité personnelle générale et la perception d’un déclin de l’état desanté global durant la grossesse. Pourtant, alors que les discussions de groupe ont fait ressortir la pauvretéet l’immigration comme thèmes importants en rapport avec la santé durant la grossesse, il n’en a pas étéde même pour le racisme.Dans cet échantillon, la racisation constitue un facteur prédictif d’expériences indésirables au niveau de la santé durant la grossesse, malgré la tendance des Hamiltoniennes et Hamiltoniens à exclure le racisme comme déterminant de cette santé. Des politiques antiracistes et intersectionnelles plus agressives en matière de réduction de la pauvreté sont nécessaires au Canada pour atténuer les inégalités liées à la grossesse et favoriser l’équité en santé.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.009
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.560
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0090.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.579
GPT teacher head0.585
Teacher spread0.006 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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