Measuring The Enduring Imprint Of Structural Racism On American Neighborhoods.

ABSTRACT: A long history of discriminatory policies in the United States has created disparities in neighborhood resources that shape ethnoracial health inequities today. To quantify these differences, we organized publicly available data on forty-two variables at the census tract level within nine domains affected by structural racism: built environment, criminal justice, education, employment, housing, income and poverty, social cohesion, transportation, and wealth. Using data from multiple sources at several levels of geography, we developed scores in each domain, as well as a summary score that we call the Structural Racism Effect Index. We examined correlations with life expectancy and other measures of health for this index and other commonly used area-based indices. The Structural Racism Effe

SUBMITTER: Dyer Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10804769 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature