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State Policies, Racial Disparities, and Income Support: A Way to Address Infant Outcomes and the Persistent Black-White Gap?
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2022) 47 (2): 225–258.
Published: 01 April 2022
... experience with area-level deprivation such as residential segregation, and other harmful exposures that the authors refer to as “institutional” or “structural” racism. The authors use logistic regression models and a dataset that includes all births from 1994 to 2017 as well as five state policies from...
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Sickening: Anti-Black Racism and Health Disparities in the United States
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (5): 821–824.
Published: 01 October 2023
... across US institutions to illustrate how institutional racism remains ever-present, building upon generations of Black health inequities. Pollock explains her motivation as twofold: first, drawing on her experience teaching health disparities to undergraduate students for more than a decade, Sickening...
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Political Participation in the Least Healthy Place in America: Examining the Political Determinants of Health in the Mississippi Delta
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2019) 44 (3): 505–531.
Published: 01 June 2019
... dynamics in Mississippi makes it clear that policy decisions such as these affecting the social determinants of health cannot be understood without grappling with the role of institutions, structural racism, governance processes, cultural dynamics, demographics, and history. This look at the history...
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Does Racism Affect Health? Evidence from the United States and the United Kingdom
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2011) 36 (1): 187–214.
Published: 01 February 2011
...; Jackson et al. 1996; Tull et al. 2005).
Primarily following Williams (1999), we define three forms of racism
that might affect health. The first is “institutional racism,” which arises
via structural factors that, in turn, arise from historical discriminatory
policies. For example, historical...
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Health Issues in the Black Community
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1994) 19 (1): 274–277.
Published: 01 February 1994
... reforms in the organization and
delivery of health care. As Bailus Walker notes in his chapter, “Health
Policies and the Black Community,” one of the major new policy objec-
tives is to create more equitable access to care. Achieving this goal re-
quires a fuller understanding of how institutional...
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The Political Realignment of Health: How Partisan Power Shaped Infant Health in the United States, 1915–2017
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2022) 47 (2): 201–224.
Published: 01 April 2022
... 2022 institutional racism political parties infant mortality health disparities policy Although key public health indicators have dramatically improved over the past century, racial disparities in health have remained entrenched. In the early 1900s, Black infants and mothers died...
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The Promise and Limits of Racial/Ethnic Concordance in Physician-Patient Interaction
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (4): 811–838.
Published: 01 August 2006
.... King, G. 1996 . Institutional Racism and the Medical/Health Complex: A Conceptual Analysis. Ethnicity and Disease 6 : 30 -46. Kirmayer, L. J., and A. Young. 1998 . Culture and Somatization: Clinical, Epidemiological, and Ethnographic Perspectives. Psychosomatic Medicine 60 : 420 -430...
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The Biological Concept of Race and Its Application to Public Health and Epidemiology
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1986) 11 (1): 97–116.
Published: 01 February 1986
..., not for biological but for
social reasons.
Black people in our society are imprisoned by institutional racism; this is the
attribute of blackness which at bottom determines their health status. While the
character of the health disadvantage may evolve, for example, as a result of mi-
gration from...
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Racism and the Political Economy of COVID-19: Will We Continue to Resurrect the Past?
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (6): 937–950.
Published: 01 December 2020
... to address hospital shortages after the Great Depression and World War II, had “separate-but-equal” provisions that sanctioned institutional racism in the “revitalized” health care system (Largent 2018 ). The real drivers of the coronavirus are unjust policies and unhealthy settings, not people's...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2022) 47 (2): 111–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
... ). In this context, racism was declared a public health crisis, states and cities discussed policy solutions, institutions of all stripes had moments of “racial reckoning,” and partisan politics became even more divided over whether and how to address racism (Andrews 2021 ; Blake 2021 ; Vestal 2020 ; Yearby et al...
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Unmasking Jim Crow
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1993) 18 (4): 871–879.
Published: 01 August 1993
... Services of Middle Tennessee, Inc.
Publicly financed, state-fostered institutional racism pervades the delivery
of health care in America. By encouraging us to confront that unhappy
reality, David Smith (elsewhere in this issue of JHPPL) makes what will
hopefully be an important contribution...
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Needed Interventions to Reduce Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (4): 627–651.
Published: 01 August 2016
... is another distinctive social exposure that shapes the health of racial/ethnic minorities. Scientific evidence indicates that discrimination is pervasive across institutional and interpersonal levels in contemporary societies (Pager and Shepherd 2008 ). Institutional racism and personal experiences...
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Stigma as an Unrecognized Determinant of Population Health: Research and Policy Implications
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2016) 41 (4): 653–673.
Published: 01 August 2016
...-being of the stigmatized (Hatzenbuehler and Link 2014 : 2) The idea of structural stigma has its origins in the related concept of institutional racism (Carmichael and Hamilton 1967 ) but broadens that concept to include other groups that have experienced a historical legacy of disadvantage (Link...
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Fighting for America's Paradise: The Struggle against Structural Racism
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2021) 46 (4): 563–575.
Published: 01 August 2021
... ). Despite policy advancements for communities of color since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, structural racism continues to have a stronghold on government and societal institutions (Hahn, Benedict, and Williams 2018 ). Structural racism is manifested in inequality in the criminal justice...
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Experiencing Politics: A Legislator's Stories of Government and Health Care
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2002) 27 (2): 318–321.
Published: 01 April 2002
...—multiculturalism—should not be controver-
sial. Indeed, legal mandates and changing demographics raised overdue
questions about taken-for-granted institutional racism, sexism, and eth-
nocentrism. Reexamination of organizational values and rules may invig-
orate—not harm—the nation’s history of dynamic...
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PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2002) 27 (2): 321–325.
Published: 01 April 2002
... to become aware of and
understand many cultures—multiculturalism—should not be controver-
sial. Indeed, legal mandates and changing demographics raised overdue
questions about taken-for-granted institutional racism, sexism, and eth-
nocentrism. Reexamination of organizational values and rules may invig...
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Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2002) 27 (2): 325–328.
Published: 01 April 2002
...—multiculturalism—should not be controver-
sial. Indeed, legal mandates and changing demographics raised overdue
questions about taken-for-granted institutional racism, sexism, and eth-
nocentrism. Reexamination of organizational values and rules may invig-
orate—not harm—the nation’s history of dynamic...
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Compounding Racialized Vulnerability: COVID-19 in Prisons, Jails, and Migrant Detention Centers
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2021) 46 (5): 861–887.
Published: 01 October 2021
... incarceration and structural racism are the underlying conditions that have rendered nonwhite detainees “vulnerable to premature death” (Gilmore 2007 : 28). Institutional responses at multiple levels have heightened structural marginalization to bring about new forms of compounding racial vulnerability, often...
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Health Care Professionals and Exclusive Scopes of Practice
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2002) 27 (2): 307–317.
Published: 01 April 2002
...—multiculturalism—should not be controver-
sial. Indeed, legal mandates and changing demographics raised overdue
questions about taken-for-granted institutional racism, sexism, and eth-
nocentrism. Reexamination of organizational values and rules may invig-
orate—not harm—the nation’s history of dynamic...
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Framing Health Equity: US Health Disparities in Comparative Perspective
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2017) 42 (5): 803–839.
Published: 01 October 2017
... on whites and African Americans, so that controlling for SES can “account for” much of the observed racial disparity in health status while substantially underplaying the role of institutional and individual forms of racism on health status. Reed and Chowkwanyun ( 2012 ) go one step further, demonstrating...
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