What The Study Did: Researchers describe associations of the historic racially discriminatory home loan practice of redlining with disparities in modern obstetric outcomes in this observational study. They use a nine-county birth certificate database in the Finger Lakes region of New York state from 2005 to 2018 and match modern obstetric outcomes with regions classified by the federal government for mortgage loan servicing based on racially discriminatory criteria from the 1940 Home Owners’ Loan Corporation map also known as the redline map.
Authors: Stefanie J. Hollenbach, M.D., M.S., of the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.26707)
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