The knowledge base regarding the impact of racism and discrimination on African American
health and well-being has grown significantly since the first models of racism and health, but …

Racism is a fundamental cause of racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes.
Researchers have a critical role to play in confronting racism by understanding it and …

Thirty-seven years ago, the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health called
attention to a “national paradox” of persistent Black-White health disparities despite overall …

In recent decades, there has been remarkable growth in scientific research examining the
multiple ways in which racism can adversely affect health. This interest has been driven in …

Differences in health outcomes across racial groups are among the most commonly reported
findings in health disparities research. Often, these studies do not explicitly connect …

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 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 …

Most research on the effects of racism and discrimination on the health and well-being of
African Americans utilize a deficit perspective, one that homogeneously paints African …

Racism matters, and matters profoundly, to understanding the persistent and pervasive
disparities in health experienced by racialized populations in the United States and …

Research related to racism and health has evolved in recent decades, with a growing
appreciation of the centrality of the social determinants of health, life-course approaches and …

Substantial time and resources have been devoted to the study of racial inequalities in
health. Indeed, the public health and social science literatures have documented racial …