Recent events have amplified the debilitating effects of systemic racism on the health of the
United States. In an effort to improve population health and dismantle more than 400 years …

Public health researchers have directed increasing attention to structural racism and its
implications for health equity. The conceptualization of racism as historically rooted in …

As a social construct, race has been and remains a powerful organizing feature of American
social life. Racial categories both reflect and reinforce group differences in access to …

The science of eliminating racial health disparities requires a clear understanding of the
underlying social processes that drive persistent differences in health outcomes by …

Policy Points Racism is a fundamental cause of health inequities and disease, which
requires policy solutions that address this cause directly rather than only targeting …

For far too long, US racialized groups have experienced human suffering and loss of life far
too often and early. Thus, it is critical that the population sciences community does its part to …

This article draws upon a major social science theoretical approach–systemic racism theory–
to assess decades of empirical research on racial dimensions of US health care and public …

Racial disparities in mortality over time reflect divergent pathways to the current large racial
disparities in health. The residential concentration of African Americans is high and …

The aim of this article is to examine the intersection of race and poverty, two critical factors
fueling persistent racial and ethnic health disparities among urban populations. From the …

Across the United States, Black people have shorter life expectancies than white people—
reflecting structural racism and deep-rooted drivers of population health. But are some cities …