Variation in Birth Outcomes by Mother's Country of Birth Among Hispanic Women in the United States, 2013.
Carla L DeSistoJill A McDonaldPublished in: Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) (2018)
Our results demonstrated heterogeneity in rates of adverse birth outcomes by country of birth for foreign-born Hispanic women. Presenting rates for foreign-born mothers as a group masks differences by country. To understand possible changes in data on birth outcomes, states should stratify data by maternal country of birth.