ArticleThe Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres2022
Dismantling "Race" in Health Research.
Article in The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Social Risks and Health Care Use in Medically Complex Patients.JAMA network open · 2024Article
- Factors Affecting the Willingness of African-American and American Indian/Alaska Native Communities to Engage in Genetic and Biomarker Research: The UBIGR Study.Biomarkers in neuropsychiatry · 2024Article
- The Canadian Landscape of Genetics and Genomics in Nursing: A Policy Document Analysis.The Canadian journal of nursing research = Revue canadienne de recherche en sciences infirmieres · 2023Article
- Associations Between Social Risks and Primary Care Utilization Among Medically Complex Veterans.Journal of general internal medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
In this era of confronting racism in public space, it is critical to keep addressing the covert systemic racism in the healthcare system. We want to bring attention to the continued unscientific practice of race-based medicine and the absurdity of treating race as a biological indicator in the 21st century. We believe race is a social construct that does not qualify as a scientific biological indicator for predicting health outcomes. In this paper, we first present arguments for inappropriate use of race in health research and then discuss alternative explanations for health disparity findings that use race as a predictor. Our main concern centers on two specific aspects of the concept of "race": (1) its fundamental lack of scientific basis as a predictor for health outcomes, (2) the misguided narrative that the term creates, placing the onus of racial discrimination on the victim, instead of highlighting the act of discrimination and the role researchers play in actively reinforcing racism when using "race" as a variable. We conclude by proposing that "race" be replaced by the variable "racism" in health.
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