Public HealthCommunity HealthPopulation Health SciencesPerinatal EpidemiologySubstance Use DisordersSubstance Use PreventionAlcohol Use EpidemiologyBehavioral Health EpidemiologyImmigrant HealthLatino Health StudiesLatinx StudiesSubstance Abuse PreventionDrug Use EpidemiologyLogistic RegressionLogistic Regression AnalysisPerinatal Drug ExposurePrenatal Drug ExposurePrenatal Substance ExposurePrevalence RateSubstance Use Epidemiology
The objective of this paper is to determine whether community SES and community acculturation have an effect on substance exposure rates among pregnant Latinas. The hypotheses in this paper are tested with logistic regression analyses based on a file which merges individual-level data from the 1992 Perinatal Substance Exposure Study in California with 1990 census data. Our findings indicate that community SES did not have a linear effect on substance prevalence rates for Latinas, except for a category of overall drug exposure. Higher levels of community acculturation had a direct relationship with prevalence rates for tobacco, marijuana, amphetamines, and any drug. Community acculturation also had a direct relationship with alcohol prevalence for English speakers, but an inverse relationship with Spanish speakers. Our results suggest that community acculturation is an important component of substance use studies of Latinas, above and beyond individual-level measures of acculturation
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Do Neighborhoods Influence Child and Adolescent Development?
Jeanne Brooks‐Gunn, Greg J. Duncan, Pamela Kato Klebanov et al. · American Journal of Sociology · 1993 · 1.7K citations