Racism and Health
Elsevier eBooksPublished 31 October 2016
Yin Paradies
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How racism has been conceptualized, measured, and operationalized as a determinant of health in this body of research is reviewed, as well as the main findings, limitations, and future directions in this burgeoning field of study.
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In the early 1990s, the explicit examination of racism as a determinant of health has emerged as a novel area of research within the much broader and well-established literature on racial/ethnic disparities in health. This article reviews how racism has been conceptualized, measured, and operationalized as a determinant of health in this body of research, as well as the main findings, limitations, and future directions in this burgeoning field of study.
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