Socially-assigned race and health: a scoping review with global implications for population health equity

Abstract Self-identified race/ethnicity is largely used to identify, monitor, and examine racial/ethnic inequalities. A growing body of work underscores the need to consider multiple dimensions of race – the social construction of race as a function of appearance, societal interactions, institutiona...

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Main Authors: Kellee White, Jourdyn A. Lawrence, Nedelina Tchangalova, Shuo J. Huang, Jason L. Cummings
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-02-01
Series:International Journal for Equity in Health
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-020-1137-5