Instruments for racial health equity: a scoping review of structural racism measurement, 2019-2021.

ABSTRACT: Progress toward racial health equity cannot be made if we cannot measure its fundamental driver: structural racism. As in other epidemiologic studies, the first step is to measure the exposure. But how to measure structural racism is an ongoing debate. To characterize the approaches epidemiologists and other health researchers use to quantitatively measure structural racism, highlight methodological innovations, and identify gaps in the literature, we conducted a scoping review of the peer-reviewed and gray literature published during 2019-2021 to accompany the 2018 published work of Groos et al., in which they surveyed the scope of structural racism measurement up to 2017. We identified several themes from the recent literature: the current predominant focus on measuring anti-Black racism

SUBMITTER: Hing AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11405678 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature