The intricacy of structural racism measurement: A pilot development of a latent-class multidimensional measure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Structural racism is a complex system of inequities working in tandem to cause poor health for communities of color, especially for Black people. However, the multidimensional nature of structural racism is not captured by existing measures used by population health scholars to study health inequities. Multidimensional measures can be made using complex analytical techniques. Whether or not the multidimensional measure of structural racism provides more insight than the existing unidimensional measures is unknown.

Methods

We derived measures of Black-White residential segregation, inequities in education, employment, income, and homeownership, evaluated for 2,338 Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs) in the United States (US), and consolidated them into a multidimens

SUBMITTER: Chantarat T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8548924 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature