We used data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to explore potential explanations
for racial/ethnic disparities in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hospitalizations and …

Despite being globally pervasive, racism, xenophobia, and discrimination are not universally
recognised determinants of health. We challenge widespread beliefs related to the …

Objectives The aim of this evidence-based theoretically informed article was to provide an
overview of how and why the COVID-19 outbreak is particularly detrimental for the health of …

Racism, a multidimensional system of oppression and exclusion, is part of the foundation of
the United States and is detrimental to the health and well-being of Black communities and …

In 2017–2019, the March of Dimes convened a workgroup with biomedical, clinical, and
epidemiologic expertise to review knowledge of the causes of the persistent Black-White …

In this article the author examines how the frameworks of color-blind racism have influenced
many topics during the pandemic. Using readily available material from popular culture (TV …

This paper examines the COVID-19 pandemic in light of two key concepts in medical
anthropology: syndemics and structural violence. Following a discussion of the nature of …

In this article, I build a new line of health inequality research that parallels the emerging
structural racism literature. I develop theory and measurement for the concept of structural …

Quantitative studies of racial health disparities often use static measures of self-reported
race and conventional regression estimators, which critics argue is inconsistent with social …

Longstanding racial/ethnic inequalities in morbidity and mortality persist in the United States.
Although the determinants of health inequalities are complex, social and structural factors …