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Measuring Structural Racism: A Guide for Epidemiologists and Other Health Researchers

American Journal of Epidemiology, 2021
There have been over one hundred years of literature discussing the deleterious influence of racism on health. Much of the literature describes racism as a driver of social determinants of health such as housing, employment, income, and education.
Paris B Adkins-Jackson, Tongtan Chantarat, Zinzi Bailey   +2 more
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Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed Research

Annual Review of Public Health, 2019
In recent decades, there has been remarkable growth in scientific research examining the multiple ways in which racism can adversely affect health. This interest has been driven in part by the striking persistence of racial/ethnic inequities in health ...
David R Williams, Jourdyn A Lawrence, Brigette A Davis   +2 more
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Call to Action: Structural Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association

Circulation, 2020
Structural racism has been and remains a fundamental cause of persistent health disparities in the United States. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and multiple others have been ...
K. Churchwell, M. Elkind, Regina M. Benjamin, A. Carson, Edward K. Chang, Willie Lawrence, Andrew Mills, Tanya M Odom, C. Rodriguez, Fatima Rodriguez, E. Sanchez, A. Sharrief, M. Sims, O. Williams   +13 more
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Racism in healthcare: a scoping review

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Racism constitutes a barrier towards achieving equitable healthcare as documented in research showing unequal processes of delivering, accessing, and receiving healthcare across countries and healthcare indicators.
Sarah Hamed, Hannah Bradby, Beth Maina Ahlberg, Suruchi Thapar-Björkert   +3 more
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What Structural Racism Is (or Is Not) and How to Measure It: Clarity for Public Health and Medical Researchers

American Journal of Epidemiology, 2022
Interest in studying structural racism’s impacts on health has grown exponentially in recent years. Across these studies, there is much heterogeneity in the definition and measurement of structural racism, leading to mixed interpretations of structural ...
Lorraine T Dean, Roland J Thorpe, Thorpe Roland J   +2 more
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Implementing Anti-Racism Interventions in Healthcare Settings: A Scoping Review

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Racism towards Black, Indigenous and people of colour continues to exist in the healthcare system. This leads to profound harm for people who use and work within these settings. This is a scoping review to identify anti-racism interventions in outpatient
Nadha Hassen, Aisha Lofters, Andrew D Pinto   +2 more
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Vicarious Racism and Vigilance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mental Health Implications Among Asian and Black Americans

Public Health Reports, 2021
Objectives Experiences of vicarious racism—hearing about racism directed toward one’s racial group or racist acts committed against other racial group members—and vigilance about racial discrimination have been salient during the COVID-19 pandemic.
David H Chae, Tiffany Yip, Connor D Martz   +2 more
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Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis in the United States: Cure, Poison, or Both?

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Declaring racism a public health crisis has the potential to shepherd meaningful anti-racism policy forward and bridge long standing divisions between policy-makers, community organizers, healers, and public health practitioners.
Lilliann Paine, Lilliann Paine, Lilliann Paine, Patanjali de la Rocha, Patanjali de la Rocha, Patanjali de la Rocha, Antonia P. Eyssallenne, Antonia P. Eyssallenne, Courtni Alexis Andrews, Leanne Loo, Leanne Loo, Camara Phyllis Jones, Camara Phyllis Jones, Camara Phyllis Jones, Anne Marie Collins, Michelle Morse   +15 more
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Systemic And Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, And Approaches To Dismantling.

Health Affairs, 2022
Racism is not always conscious, explicit, or readily visible-often it is systemic and structural. Systemic and structural racism are forms of racism that are pervasively and deeply embedded in systems, laws, written or unwritten policies, and entrenched ...
P. Braveman, E. Arkin, D. Proctor, Tina J. Kauh, Nicole Holm   +4 more
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I am a Viking! DNA, popular culture and the construction of geneticized identity

New Genetics and Society, 2021
In this article, we analyze how genetic genealogy reshapes popular notions of historical identity, as it facilitates a genetically informed understanding of ethnicity and ancestry.
Daniel Strand, Anna Källén
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