Santa Barbara County now ranks second-highest in the state for its poverty rate, which affects one in six adults and one in five children. That was one of ...

To accomplish this, we used a multilevel logistic regression approach to account for multiple co-existent individual-level variables and county-level poverty rate. Methods: Population-based study ...

Modest increases in MOR and IOR values suggest that county-level poverty ... the association between poverty and preterm birth risk, such as regional crime rates, adverse environmental exposures ...