Structural Racism, Health Inequities, and the Two-Edged Sword of Data: Structural Problems Require Structural Solutions

Structural Racism, Health Inequities, and the Two-Edged Sword of Data: Structural Problems Require Structural Solutions

Analyzing the myriad ways in which structural racism systemically generates health inequities requires engaging with the profound challenges of conceptualizing, operationalizing, and analyzing the very data deployed—i. e., racialized categories—to document racialized health inequities. This essay, w...

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Main Author:	Nancy Krieger
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-01
Series:	Frontiers in Public Health
Subjects:	anti-racism data governance ecosocial theory of disease distribution health equity population health politics of public health data
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.655447/full

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