ReviewSSM - population health2022
A comprehensive framework for operationalizing structural racism in health research: The association between mass incarceration of Black people in the U.S. and adverse birth outcomes.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.
- The association between macro-level structural discrimination and alcohol outcomes: A systematic review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Pooled it
- Developing an Intergenerational Model of Structural Racism Exposure among Women in Black Families in South Carolina, 1989-2020.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Structural Racism, Geographies of Opportunity, and Maternal Health Inequities: A Dynamic Conceptual Framework.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Maternal Nativity and Residence in US Territories and Preterm Birth.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Community mental health under routine detention: jail reliance, pretrial custody, and frequent mental distress.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Residential Neighborhood Disadvantage and Access to Kidney Transplantation.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- County Incarceration Rate and Stroke Death: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Influence of Physical Environment, Health Care Access, and Community Mental Distress.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Racism in public health authorities-A scoping review and situational analysis.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- A Model for Engaging Citizen Scientists: A Community-Partnered Research Collaboration to Address Inequities for Black Birthing People.Maternal and child health journal · 2024Article
- Community and household-level incarceration and its association with mental health in a racially/ethnically diverse sample of families.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
- Structural racism and health: Assessing the mediating role of community mental distress and health care access in the association between mass incarceration and adverse birth outcomes.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Neighborhood Incarceration Rates and Adverse Birth Outcomes in New York City, 2010-2014.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- How social policies shape the health and well-being of sexual- and gender-minority youth: Pathways of influence, social side effects and implications for life course trajectories.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Structural racism represents a key determinant of the racial health disparities that has characterized the U.S. population throughout its existence. While this reality has recently begun to gain increasing acknowledgment and acceptance within the health sciences, there are still considerable challenges related to defining the concept of structural racism and operationalizing it in empirical study. In this paper, building on the existing evidence base, we propose a comprehensive framework that centers structural racism in terms of its historical roots and continued manifestation in most domains of society, and offer solutions for the study of this phenomenon and the pathways that connect it to population-level health disparities. We showcase our framework by applying it to the known link between spatial and racialized clustering of incarceration - a previously cited representation of structural racism - and disparities in adverse birth outcomes. Through this process we hypothesize pathways that focus on social cohesion and community-level chronic stress, community crime and police victimization, as well as infrastructural community disinvestment. First, we contextualize these mechanisms within the relevant extant literature. Then, we make recommendations for future empirical pathway analyses. Finally, we identify key areas for policy, community, and individual-level interventions that target the impact of concentrated incarceration on birth outcomes among Black people in the U.S.
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