Do work characteristics mediate ethnic disparities in birth outcomes?
Evidence from a birth dataset –> Home | Browse by Day | or Program | Author Index 172413 Do work characteristics mediate ethnic disparities in birth outcomes? Evidence from a birth dataset Tuesday, October 28, 2008: 10:30 AM John D. Meyer, MD MPH , Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT Nicholas Warren, ScD , Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT Susan Reisine, PhD , Oral Health and Diagnostic Sciences, University of Connecticut Health Center School of Dental Medicine., Farmington, CT Audio (mp3) recording Multimedia recording To assess racial/ethnic differences in the association between psychosocial work characteristics and birth outcomes, we analyzed maternal occupation and birth outcomes from Connecticut in 2000. Work characteristics were imputed to maternal occupation recorded for 26,408 singleton births, using scores for work substantive complexity (SC) derived from O
