Area-level racial prejudice and health: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In recent years, there has been growing interest in "moving beyond the individual" to measure area-level racism as a social determinant of health. Much of this work has aggregated racial prejudice data collected at the individual-level to the area-level.

Objective

As this is a rapidly emerging area of research, we conducted a systematic literature review to describe evidence of the relationship between area-level racial prejudice and health, whether results differed by race/ethnicity, and to characterize key conceptual and methodological considerations to guide future research.

Method

We searched four interdisciplinary databases for US-based, peer-reviewed articles measuring area level racial prejudice by aggregating individual-level indicators of racial pr

SUBMITTER: Michaels EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8930473 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature