Measuring Structural Racism and Its Association with Racial Disparities in Firearm Homicide.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Structural racism is strongly related to racial health disparities. However, surprisingly few studies have developed empirical tools to measure structural racism. In addition, the few measures that have been employed have only considered structural racism at the neighborhood level. To expand upon previous studies, this paper uses a novel measure to measure structural racism at the county level for the non-Hispanic Black population.

Methods

We used confirmatory factor analysis to create a model to measure the latent construct of structural racism for 1181 US counties. The model included five indicators across five dimensions: racial segregation, incarceration, educational attainment, employment, and economic status/wealth. Structural equation modeling and factor

SUBMITTER: Siegel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9744051 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature