Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Dara D. Mendez, Jewel Scott, Linda Adodoadji, Christina Toval, Monica McNeil, Mahima Sindhu
Summary: Racism in the United States is considered a key driver of racial health inequities, with many policies naming racism as critical in addressing racial inequities in health, but with limited details on specific actions, funding, or resources.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Nancy Krieger
Summary: This essay highlights the dual nature of data in documenting racialized health inequities and proposes two institutional mandates to address structural racism issues. Proposal/part 1 calls for explicit explanation of conceptualization and categorization methods of racialized groups in all government-funded research projects, while proposal/part 2 requires analysis of individual health data in relation to data on racialized societal inequities.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Editorial Material
Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture
Chris Edwards
Summary: Data science has limitations when dealing with a pandemic.
COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Daniel G. Aaron, Fatima Cody Stanford
Summary: Medicine is confronting systemic racism and recognizing the importance of addressing underlying systems in healthcare, such as in the case of obesity. Illness is increasingly attributed to oppressive structures, and COVID-19's origins and the burden of disease highlight the need for change. Medicine has a crucial role in redefining these systems and reducing power disparities.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Kellee White, Danielle L. Beatty Moody, Jourdyn A. Lawrence
Summary: This study evaluated the efforts of public health surveillance and monitoring systems to collect, monitor, track, and analyze racism. The results showed a lack of systems that measure individual-level racism, and few systems are linked to measures of structural racism. The study suggests that adopting a standard practice of racism surveillance can advance equity-centered public health praxis and inform policy.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Ethics
Tomar Pierson-Brown
Summary: This article discusses the trend of adopting racism as a public health crisis statements and shares the viewpoint that this trend is merely symbolic acts rather than taking substantial anti-racist action. The article argues that the movement for health justice must strategically determine how to leverage and be wary of the power dynamics that shape political change in order to achieve health justice.
JOURNAL OF LAW MEDICINE & ETHICS
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Mienah Zulfacar Sharif, Jennifer J. Garcia, Uchechi Mitchell, Elinam D. Dellor, Natalie J. Bradford, Mandy Truong
Summary: This passage discusses how structural racism and structural violence threaten the health, safety, and well-being of racialized minority groups, emphasizing the importance of public health work in addressing this threat.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Kristi L. Allgood, Jasmine A. Mack, Nicole L. Novak, Cleopatra M. Abdou, Nancy L. Fleischer, Belinda L. Needham
Summary: This study examines the indirect exposure to the Flint Water Crisis (FWC) and its impact on birth outcomes in Michigan communities outside of Flint. The study finds that the FWC has a greater impact on outcomes for babies born to Black people compared to babies born to White people. However, the effects of the FWC are difficult to separate from other racialized stressors.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Mihoko Tanabe, Michelle Hynes, Anjum Rizvi, Nimisha Goswami, Nadeem Mahmood, Sandra Krause
Summary: Pakistan faces natural disasters and high maternal and newborn mortality. With support from international organizations, Rahnuma-Family Planning Association of Pakistan has built community capacity to address sexual and reproductive health risks and linked them to existing disaster risk management structures. Through training and action plans, communities have strengthened their ability to respond to emergency SRH needs.
Article
Ethics
Nabina K. Liebow, Travis N. Rieder
Summary: Individuals have a moral responsibility to modify their behaviors to combat large-scale public health crises such as racism. This is especially true for individual white people, who need to resist white supremacy and be morally responsive to the public health crisis of racism. The moral reasons for white engagement in antiracist work go beyond those for other collectively created public health challenges.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Courtnee Melton-Fant
Summary: Policy and structural racism are interrelated systems that reinforce each other. Efforts to address the health effects of structural racism must take into account the nature of these systems. Politics and policy play a critical role in understanding the persistence of racial health inequities and developing interventions that can mitigate the impact of structural racism on health.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Courtnee Melton-Fant
Summary: Public policy and structural racism reinforce each other, and understanding the role of politics and policy is crucial for addressing racial health inequities.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Yudit Namer, Lisa Wandschneider, Sigsten Stieglitz, Dagmar Starke, Oliver Razum
Summary: Studying racism in public health services provides opportunities to explore the relationship between racism and health protection, and to find ways to dismantle it.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Lilliann Paine, Patanjali de la Rocha, Antonia P. Eyssallenne, Courtni Alexis Andrews, Leanne Loo, Camara Phyllis Jones, Anne Marie Collins, Michelle Morse
Summary: Declaring racism as a public health crisis can drive meaningful anti-racism policies, but may also lead to divisions between policy-makers and community organizers. It is crucial to use this tool cautiously to maximize impact.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Maria Gilson de Valpine, Erica J. Lewis
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how racism devastates the health and well-being of people of color, echoing the tragic lessons of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic. Structural racism in America has a long history of oppressing African Americans, Native Alaskans, and Indigenous North Americans, leading to inequitable health outcomes. Policy solutions exist to combat structural racism, but it will require multidisciplinary policy actions and a change in the political environment to implement them effectively.
PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING
(2021)
