ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2022
Improving The Measurement Of Structural Racism To Achieve Antiracist Health Policy.
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- Reporting race and ethnicity in aging in place research: A systematic review.The Gerontologist · 2026Pooled it
- Structural racism as a fundamental cause of health inequities: a scoping review.International journal for equity in health · 2025Pooled it
- Structural racism and adverse maternal health outcomes: A systematic review.Health & place · 2022Pooled it
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- Measuring Structural Racism to Advance Health Equity: A Scoping Review of Quantitative Approaches.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Review
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- Developing and Validating Measures of Structural Ableism to Improve Health Outcomes for the Disability Community: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Applying mixtures methodology to analyze how exposure to structural racism and economic disadvantage affect perinatal health outcomes: an ECHO study.American journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Developing an Index to Measure Structural Racism: Methodological Process, Challenges, and Considerations.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Structural, Institutional, and Interpersonal Racism: Calling for Equity in Autism Research and Practice.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Review
- State-Level Structural Racism and Incident Coronary Heart Disease.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026Article
- Cumulative Lifespan Stress, Inflammation, and Racial Disparities in Mortality Between Black and White Adults.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Exclusive research is bad science: the epidemiologic argument for diversity, equity, and inclusion in research.International journal of epidemiology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Antiracist health policy research requires methodological innovation that creates equity-centered and antiracist solutions to health inequities by centering the complexities and insidiousness of structural racism. The development of effective health policy and health equity interventions requires sound empirical characterization of the nature of structural racism and its impact on public health. However, there is a disconnect between the conceptualization and measurement of structural racism in the public health literature. Given that structural racism is a system of interconnected institutions that operates with a set of racialized rules that maintain White supremacy, how can anyone accurately measure its insidiousness? This article highlights methodological approaches that will move the field forward in its ability to validly measure structural racism for the purposes of achieving health equity. We identify three key areas that require scholarly attention to advance antiracist health policy research: historical context, geographical context, and theory-based novel quantitative and qualitative methods that capture the multifaceted and systemic properties of structural racism as well as other systems of oppression.
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