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ReviewFrontiers in public health2021

Racism as Public Health Crisis: Assessment and Review of Municipal Declarations and Resolutions Across the United States.

Dara D Mendez, Jewel Scott, Linda Adodoadji, Christina Toval, Monica McNeil, Mahima Sindhu

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Review in Frontiers in public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Anti-Racist Practices in Health Care Organizations-A Qualitative Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  7. Longitudinal Links Between Vicarious Racism and Mental Health Among Mexican-Origin Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Daily Sleep Quality.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2025
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  8. Racism Counterfactuals in Health Research.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025
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  15. Anti-Racism Efforts in Healthcare: A Selective Review From a Social Cognitive Perspective.Policy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Dara D MendezDepartment of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Jewel ScottDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Linda AdodoadjiDepartment of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Christina TovalDepartment of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Monica McNeilSchool of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Mahima SindhuDepartments of Communication and Statistics, Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.

Funding

CARDIOVASCULAR BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE RESEARCH TRAININGT32HL007560 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Peter J Gianaros, REBECCA C THURSTON · 1985 to 2026
$11.3M
Postpartum Weight Retention and Cardiometabolic Disparities: The Effects of Contexual, Psychosocial, and Behavioral FactorsR01HL135218 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI MENDEZ, DARA DANEEN · 2017 to 2021
$3.4M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL135218NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007560
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Racism in the United States has been cited as a key driver of racial health inequities. Racism as a public health crisis has been in the forefront, particularly with respect to state and municipal governments that have developed legislation, resolutions, and declarations. This policy brief includes a review of resolutions and declarations across the US related to Racism as a Public Health Crisis through the end of September 2020. There were 125 resolutions reviewed for content related to the history of racism, reference to racial health equity data, content related to action steps or implementation, and any accompanying funding or resources. We found that the majority of policies name racism as critical in addressing racial inequities in health with limited details about specific actions, funding, or resources.

Indexed as

Health EquityRacismHumansLocal GovernmentPublic HealthRacial GroupsUnited Statesdeclarationshealth equitylegislationpolicypublic healthracism

Identifiers

PMID34458221
PMCPMC8385329

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