ArticleFrontiers in public health2023
Structural racism theory, measurement, and methods: A scoping review.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Mapping the Representation of Race and Other Health Disparities in U.S. Orthopaedic Journals : A Scoping Review.Journal of bioethical inquiry · 2026Review
- White by default: conceptual and methodological limits of binary white logic in global health equity research.Medicine, health care, and philosophy · 2026Article
- Understanding the Influence of Income Inequality and Violent Crime on Police Fatal Shootings in U.S. Counties: 2015-2022.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- 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
- Postpartum severe maternal morbidity: A longitudinal analysis of the association with economic segregation and neighborhood deprivation in Georgia, USA 2016-2022.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2026Article
- A Standard Measure of Structural Racism, Do We Have One? Can We Have One? A Narrative Review of Commonly Used Measures and Domains of Use.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Review
- The development, evolution, and maintenance of structural racism for the study of health inequities: An expanded framework for Asian, Black, Hispanic, Indigenous, and White Americans.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Review
- Inequity in US Racial/Ethnic Infant Health and Birth Outcomes: The Role of the Adult Sex Ratio as a Potential Indicator of Structural Anti-Black Racism.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Criminal Justice, Arrests Data, and Structural Racism Measurement for Health Equity Research: Promises and Pitfalls.Health services research · 2025Article
- A multidimensional tool for quantifying structural racism: Application to adverse pregnancy outcomes in Chicago, Illinois.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Influence of structural racism on cancer health disparities: Tailoring measures relevant to multiple myeloma.Cancer · 2024Article
- Structural Racism Conceptualization and Operationalization for Research for the U.S. HIV Epidemic: Findings from a Scoping Review and Implications for Advancing Research for Structural Interventions.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- Indicators of inequity: Exploring the complexities of operationalizing area-level structural racism.SSM - population health · 2024Article
- Structural gendered racism and preterm birth inequities in the United States.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Article
- Ethno-racial categorisations for biomedical studies: the fair selection of research participants and population stratification.Synthese · 2024Article
- Residential Structural Racism and Prevalence of Chronic Health Conditions.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Legislating Inequity: Structural Racism In Groups Of State Laws And Associations With Premature Mortality Rates.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Epidemiologic and public health interest in structural racism has grown dramatically, producing both increasingly sophisticated questions, methods, and findings, coupled with concerns of atheoretical and ahistorical approaches that often leave the actual production of health or disease ambiguous. This trajectory raises concerns as investigators adopt the term "structural racism" without engaging with theories and scholars with a long history in this area. This scoping review aims to build upon recent work by identifying current themes about the incorporation of structural racism into (social) epidemiologic research and practice with respect to theory, measurement, and practices and methods for trainees and public health researchers who are not already deeply grounded in this work. Methods: This review uses methodological framework and includes peer-review articles written in English published between January 2000-August 2022. Results: A search of Google Scholar, manual collection, and referenced lists identified a total of 235 articles; 138 met the inclusion criteria after duplicates were removed. Results were extracted by, and organized into, three broad sections: theory, construct measurement, and study practice and methods, with several themes summarized in each section. Discussion: This review concludes with a summary of recommendations derived from our scoping review and a call to action echoing previous literature to resist an uncritical and superficial adoption of "structural racism" without attention to already existing scholarship and recommendations put forth by experts in the field.
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