Structural Intersectionality as a New Direction for Health Disparities Research.

ABSTRACT: This article advances the field by integrating insights from intersectionality perspectives with the emerging literatures on structural racism and structural sexism-which point to promising new ways to measure systems of inequality at a macro level-to introduce a structural intersectionality approach to population health. We demonstrate an application of structural intersectionality using administrative data representing macrolevel structural racism, structural sexism, and income inequality in U.S. states linked to individual data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to estimate multilevel models (N = 420,644 individuals nested in 76 state-years) investigating how intersecting dimensions of structural oppression shape health. Analyses show that these structural inequa

SUBMITTER: Homan P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8628816 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature