Understanding how discrimination can affect health

DR Williams, JA Lawrence, BA Davis… - Health services …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background To provide an overview of the empirical research linking self‐reports of racial
discrimination to health status and health service utilization. Methods A review of literature …

Associations between microaggression and adjustment outcomes: A meta-analytic and narrative review.

PP Lui, L Quezada - Psychological bulletin, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Microaggression has been considered a form of stressor that negatively affects people with
marginalized statuses. Research shows variability in how microaggression is measured …

Discrimination and systemic inflammation: a critical review and synthesis

AG Cuevas, AD Ong, K Carvalho, T Ho… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Exposure to discrimination or unfair treatment has emerged as an important risk factor for
illness and disease that disproportionately affects racial and ethnic minorities. Discriminatory …

Racial discrimination and health: a prospective study of ethnic minorities in the United Kingdom

RA Hackett, A Ronaldson, K Bhui, A Steptoe… - BMC public health, 2020 - Springer
Background Racism has been linked with poor health in studies in the United States. Little is
known about prospective associations between racial discrimination and health outcomes in …

A cross‐sectional analysis of factors associated with stress, burnout and turnover intention among healthcare workers during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United …

M Mercado, K Wachter, RC Schuster… - Health & Social Care …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In 2020, healthcare workers faced the COVID‐19 pandemic amidst other salient
sociopolitical stressors. This study, therefore, set out to examine associations between …

Racial discrimination and telomere shortening among African Americans: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study.

DH Chae, Y Wang, CD Martz, N Slopen, T Yip… - Health …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Telomeres are protective sequences of DNA capping the ends of chromosomes
that shorten over time. Leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is posited to reflect the replicative …

The immediate effect of discrimination on mental health: A meta-analytic review of the causal evidence.

C Emmer, J Dorn, J Mata - Psychological bulletin, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
This meta-analysis synthesizes experimental studies on the immediate effects of
discrimination on mental health, exploring the effects of different paradigms and …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review and meta-analysis of the Everyday Discrimination Scale and biomarker outcomes

JA Lawrence, I Kawachi, K White, MT Bassett… - …, 2022 - Elsevier
Discrimination has consistently been associated with multiple adverse health outcomes.
Like other psychosocial stressors, discrimination is thought to impact health through stress …

Beyond the rape “victim”–“survivor” binary: How race, gender, and identity processes interact to shape distress

KM Boyle, KB Rogers - Sociological Forum, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
“Victim” and “survivor” identities are central to discourses on sexual victimization. Activist
and academic discourses associate the former with weakness and latter with strength, while …

The neurophysiological consequences of racism-related stressors in Black Americans

EK Webb, SE Carter, KJ Ressler, N Fani… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Racism-related stressors, from experiences of both implicit and explicit racial discrimination
to systemic socioeconomic disadvantage, have a cumulative impact on Black Americans' …