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Invited Commentary: Comparing Approaches to Measuring Structural Racism

Author(s) -

Jaquelyn L. Jahn

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

american journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.33

H-Index - 256

eISSN - 1476-6256

pISSN - 0002-9262

DOI - 10.1093/aje/kwab261

Subject(s) - racism , extant taxon , conversation , sociology , psychology , gender studies , communication , evolutionary biology , biology

In their article, Adkins-Jackson et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2022;191(4):539–547) provide much needed insight on current approaches and challenges to epidemiologic research on structural racism. The authors encourage researchers to consider how structural racism is conceptualized in extant and future work, and whether existing measures accurately reflect the multidimensional nature of structural racism. In the spirit of continuing this conversation, I expand upon approaches to measuring structural racism. I compare the merits and challenges of scales, indexes, indicators, and policy-based measures of structural racism for use in epidemiologic research.

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