Policing as a Social Determinant of Health: The Impact of Drug Enforcement on Prenatal Care Utilization in Urban Communities.
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Abstract
Background: Prenatal care is an important health behavior for optimizing maternal-child outcomes. Social ecological studies have identified both individual- and community-level factors that significantly impact this health behavior. While public health researchers have demonstrated that police officers can act as both barriers and facilitators to health promoting behaviors, little is known about their effect on women’s adequacy of prenatal care utilization (APNCU).
Aim of the Study: Use a mixed-model procedure that nests individuals within their census-tracts of residence to examine the effects of drug arrests (a common police strategy in vulnerable communities) on APNCU among pregnant women residing in an urban setting.
Results: While controlling for several known individual-level factors (i.e., maternal age, education, and pregnancy risk/complications), the study found that police drug arrests negatively impacted APNCU, as did structural disadvantage, distance to primary care, and residential stability. As expected all three individual-level factors positively impacted APNCU.
Conclusions: This research demonstrates that the police are an important social determinant of prenatal care and further supports the limited research on the effect of American policing tactics on community health promotion/disease prevention efforts. We hope this research initiates a new policy paradigm that views the police as an institution of public health as much as an institution of criminal justice.
Keywords:
Prenatal care, police, health behavior, social determinants of health, violence, vulnerable populations
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O'BRIEN, Anne-Marie; KANE, Robert J..
Policing as a Social Determinant of Health: The Impact of Drug Enforcement on Prenatal Care Utilization in Urban Communities..
Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 6, n. 2, feb. 2018.
ISSN 2375-1924.
Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/1648>. Date accessed: 18 apr. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v6i2.1648.
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22. Hacker K, Chu J, Leung C, Marra R, Pirie A, Brahimi M, et al. The impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on immigrant health: Perceptions of immigrants in Everett, Massachusetts, USA. Soc Sci Med. 2011;73(4):586–94.
23. Beletsky L, Heller D, Jenness SM, Neaigus A, Gelpi-Acosta C, Hagan H. Syringe access, syringe sharing, and police encounters among people who inject drugs in New York city: A community-level perspective. Int J Drug Policy. 2014;25(1):105–11.
24. Davis CS, Burris S, Kraut-Becher J, Lynch KG, Metzger D. Effects of an intensive street-level police intervention on syringe exchange program use in Philadelphia, Pa. Am J Public Health. 2005;95(2):233–6.
25. Flath N, Tobin K, King K, Lee A, Latkin C. Enduring Consequences From the War on Drugs: How Policing Practices Impact HIV Risk Among People Who Inject Drugs in Baltimore City. Subst Use Misuse. 2017;52(8):1003–10.
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29. Kane RJ. Compromised police legitimacy as a predictor of violent crime in structurally disadvantaged communities. Criminology. 2005;43(2):469–97.
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31. Kurbin CE, Weitzer R. Retaliatory homocide: Concentrated disadvantage and neighbourhood culture. Soc Probl. 2003;50(2):157–80.
32. Kane RJ, Cronin SW. Associations Between Order Maintenance Policing and Violent Crime. Crime Delinq [Internet]. 2013;59(6):910–29. Available from: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0011128709336940
33. Resignato AJ. Violent crime: a function of drug use or drug enforcement? Appl Econ. 2000;32(November 2012):681–8.
34. Cooper H, Moore L, Gruskin S, Krieger N. Characterizing perceived police violence: Implications for public health. Am J Public Health. 2004;94(7):1109–18.
35. Veysey BM, Messner S. Further Testing of Social Disorganization Theory: An Elaboration of Sampson and Groves’s “Community Structure and Crime.” J Compos Mater. 1999;33(10):928–40.
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37. Sampson RJ. Transcending tradition: New directions in community research, Chicago style. Criminology [Internet]. 2002;40(2):213–30. Available from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2002.tb00955.x/abstract
38. GR A, M K. Assessing the Role and Effectiveness of Prenatal Care: History, Challenges, and Directions for Ruture Research. Public Heal Rep. 2001;116(4):306–16.
39. Kogan MD, Martin J a., Alexander GR, Kotelchuck M, Ventura SJ, Frigoletto FD. The changing pattern of prenatal care utilization in the United States, 1981-1995, using different prenatal care indices. JAMA J Am Med Assoc. 1998;279(20):1623–8.
40. Kotelchuck M. An evaluation of the Kessner Adequacy of Prenatal Care Index and a proposed Adequacy of Prenatal Care Utilization Index. Am J Public Health. 1994;84(9):1414–20.
41. Schempf A, Strobino D, O’Campo P. Neighborhood effects on birthweight: An exploration of psychosocial and behavioral pathways in Baltimore, 1995-1996. Soc Sci Med. 2009;68(1):100–10.
42. Sampson RJ, Groves WB. Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social-Disorganization Theory. Am J Sociol [Internet]. 1989;94(4):774–802. Available from: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/229068
43. Walton E. Residential Segregation and Birth Weight among Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the United States. J Health Soc Behav [Internet]. 2009;50(4):427–42. Available from: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/002214650905000404
44. Elo IT, Culhane JF. Variations in health and health behaviors by nativity among pregnant black women in Philadelphia. Am J Public Health. 2010;100(11):2185–92.
45. Cabral H, Fried LE, Levenson S, Amaro H, Zuckerman B. Foreign-born and US-born Black women: Differences in health behaviors and birth outcomes. Am J Public Health. 1990;80(1):70–2.
46. Galea S, Ahern J, Karpati A. A model of underlying socioeconomic vulnerability in human populations: Evidence from variability in population health and implications for public health. Soc Sci Med. 2005;60(11):2417–30.
47. Turney K, Harknett K. Neighborhood Disadvantage, Residential Stability, and Perceptions of Instrumental Support Among New Mothers. J Fam Issues. 2010;31(4):499–524.
48. Bengiamin MI, Capitman JA, Ruwe MB. Disparities in initiation and adherence to prenatal care: Impact of insurance, race-ethnicity and nativity. Matern Child Health J. 2010;14(4):618–24.
49. Bryant AS, Worjoloh A, Caughey AB, Washington AE. Racial/ethnic disparities in obstetric outcomes and care: prevalence and determinants. Vol. 202, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2010. p. 335–43.
50. Kenny LC, Lavender T, McNamee R, O’Neill SM, Mills T, Khashan AS. Advanced Maternal Age and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome: Evidence from a Large Contemporary Cohort. PLoS One. 2013;8(2).
51. Peugh JL, Enders CK. Using the SPSS Mixed Procedure to Fit Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Multilevel Models. Educ Psychol Meas [Internet]. 2005;65(5):717–41. Available from: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0013164405278558
52. Fox J. Regression Diagnostics: An Introduction. Beverly Hills: Sage; 1991.
53. Singer JD. Using SAS PROC MIXED to Fit Multilevel Models, Hierarchical Models, and Individual Growth Models. J Educ Behav Stat. 1998;23(4):323–55.
54. Beletsky L, Agrawal A, Moreau B, Kumar P, Weiss-Laxer N, Heimer R. Police training to align law enforcement and HIV prevention: Preliminary evidence from the field. Am J Public Health. 2011;101(11):2012–5.
55. Strathdee SA, Arredondo J, Rocha T, Abramovitz D, Rolon ML, Patiño Mandujano E, et al. A police education programme to integrate occupational safety and HIV prevention: protocol for a modified stepped-wedge study design with parallel prospective cohorts to assess behavioural outcomes. BMJ Open [Internet]. 2015;5(8):e008958. Available from: http://bmjopen.bmj.com/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008958
56. Kneeshaw-Price SH, Saelens BE, Sallis JF, Frank LD, Grembowski DE, Hannon PA, et al. Neighborhood Crime-Related Safety and Its Relation to Children???s Physical Activity. J Urban Heal. 2015;92(3):472–89.
57. Patterson F, Seravalli L, Hanlon A, Nelson DB. Neighborhood safety as a correlate of tobacco use in a sample of urban, pregnant women. Addict Behav. 2012;37(10):1132–7.
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