Health Affairs Issue on Racism and Health Care

Posted by Javier Crespo on February 28th, 2022 Posted in: Blog

The February issue of Health Affairs, available through the Public Health Digital Library, is entirely devoted to the  critical examination of racism in health care.  

In “The Intellectual Roots Of Current Knowledge On Racism And Health: Relevance To Policy And The National Equity Discourse”,  Zambrana and Williams show how race, class, and structural racism inter-relate to affect individual and population health over the life course.

Paula A. Braveman et al.  define and explain how structural and systemic racism harm the health of people of color and society’s overall health in “Systemic And Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, And Approaches To Dismantling”.

The issue also provides first-person essays on experiences of underrepresented persons have in a racist health care system:  “Addressing The Interlocking Impact Of Colonialism And Racism On Filipinx/a/o American Health Inequities” Sabado-Liwag, et al.); “The Mutually Reinforcing Cycle Of Poor Data Quality And Racialized Stereotypes That Shapes Asian American Health” (Yi, et al.); and The Generational Impact Of Racism On Health: Voices From American Indian Communities, (Solomon, et al.)

Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil provides very brief summaries of articles appearing in the issue.

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