Effect of social deprivation on gestational age and size at birth

Principal investigator: Sandra Bonellie (Napier University)
Collaborators: Steve Jarvis (University of Newcastle), Edmund Hey (deceased) (University of Newcastle), Ian Greer (University of Liverpool), Jim Chalmers (ISD, Scotland), Ron Gray (NPEU (Former member))
Topics: Preterm birth, Smoking or vaping in pregnancy, Socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities, Stillbirth and infant death
Funder: Chief Scientist's Office Scotland
Start year: 2005
End year: 2007
NPEU Contact: Jenny Kurinczuk

Summary

This study, using the maternity and birth record linked data in Scotland, focused on changing influences of social deprivation between 1980 and 2003 on pregnancy outcome in Scotland.We were also able to examine the effect of deprivation on birth outcomes which is attributable to smoking during pregnancy. We also produced new birth weight centiles for Scotland.

Publications

Journal Articles

Gray R, Bonellie SR, Chalmers J, Greer I, Jarvis S, Williams C. Social inequalities in preterm birth in Scotland 1980?2003: findings from an area-based measure of deprivation. Br J Obstet Gynaecol. 2008;115(1):82-90.
Bonellie S, Chalmers J, Gray R, Greer I, Jarvis S, Williams C. Centile charts for birthweight for gestational age for Scottish singleton births. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2008;8(1):5.
Gray R, Bonellie SR, Chalmers J, Greer I, Jarvis S, Kurinczuk JJ, Williams C. Contribution of smoking during pregnancy to inequalities in stillbirth and infant death in Scotland 1994-2003: retrospective population based study using hospital maternity records. Br Med J. 2009;339:b3754.