ArticleJournal of health and social behavior2022
Structural Racism and Quantitative Causal Inference: A Life Course Mediation Framework for Decomposing Racial Health Disparities.
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- Three-Way Decomposition for Applied Health Equity Research: A Practical Tutorial to Understand and Address Inequalities.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
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- Effects of an Intervention on Black Family Incomes on Self-Rated Health and Obesity in Black and White Adolescents and Young Adults.American journal of epidemiology · 2024Article
- The mediating role of systemic inflammation and moderating role of racialization in disparities in incident dementia.Communications medicine · 2024Article
- Methods for structural sexism and population health research: Introducing a novel analytic framework to capture life-course and intersectional effects.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
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Abstract
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-constructivist theories of race, racialization, and racism. We demonstrate an alternative counterfactual approach to explain how multiple racialized systems dynamically shape health over time, examining racial inequities in cardiometabolic risk in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. This framework accounts for the dynamics of time-varying confounding and mediation that is required in operationalizing a "race" variable as part of a social process (
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