What structural racism is (or is not) and how to measure it: clarity for public health and medical researchers

LT Dean, RJ Thorpe Jr - American Journal of Epidemiology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Measuring structural racism: a guide for epidemiologists and other health researchers

PB Adkins-Jackson, T Chantarat… - American journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
There have been over 100 years of literature discussing the deleterious influence of racism
on health. Much of the literature describes racism as a driver of social determinants of …

[HTML][HTML] Looking back to leap forward: a framework for operationalizing the structural racism construct in minority health research

AC Dennis, EO Chung, EK Lodge, RA Martinez… - Ethnicity & …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Racism is now widely recognized as a fundamental cause of health inequalities in the
United States. As such, health scholars have rightly turned their attention toward examining …

Structural racism and health stratification: Connecting theory to measurement

TH Brown, P Homan - Journal of health and social behavior, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Less than 1% of studies on racialized health inequities have empirically examined their root
cause: structural racism. Moreover, there has been a disconnect between the …

Public health's approach to systemic racism: a systematic literature review

B Castle, M Wendel, J Kerr, D Brooms… - Journal of Racial and …, 2019 - Springer
Objectives Recently, public health has acknowledged racism as a social determinant of
health. Much evidence exists on the impact of individual-level racism and discrimination …

Improving the measurement of structural racism to achieve antiracist health policy: Study examines measurement of structural racism to achieve antiracist health policy

RR Hardeman, PA Homan, T Chantarat, BA Davis… - Health …, 2022 - healthaffairs.org
Antiracist health policy research requires methodological innovation that creates equity-
centered and antiracist solutions to health inequities by centering the complexities and …

Measuring inequity: a systematic review of methods used to quantify structural racism

M Groos, M Wallace… - Journal of health …, 2018 - digitalscholarship.unlv.edu
Objective: To summarize the ways in which researchers have quantified measures of
structural racism for the purposes of empirical, quantitative investigation of its associations …

Racism and health: evidence and needed research

DR Williams, JA Lawrence… - Annual review of public …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
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 …

The intricacy of structural racism measurement: a pilot development of a latent-class multidimensional measure

T Chantarat, DC Van Riper, RR Hardeman - EClinicalMedicine, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Structural racism is a complex system of inequities working in tandem to cause
poor health for communities of color, especially for Black people. However, the …

The need for shared nomenclature on racism and related terminology in psychology

AM Haeny, SC Holmes… - … on Psychological Science, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
With the increased desire to engage in antiracist clinical research, there is a need for shared
nomenclature on racism and related constructs to help move the science forward. This …