Organizational and Individual Health, Behavior, and Psychology

Introduction This article brings together studies across disciplines to understand the relationship between structural racism, poverty, and child health. Structural racism is defined as “differential access to societal goods, services, and opportunities by race.” The authors argue that a focus on poverty without appropriate consideration of racism has failed to address the negative health outcomes…

This study argues that health inequalities research systematically overlooks the role that racially and socioeconomically privileged groups play in producing health disparities and documents this “diversion” across grants, datasets, published articles, and national health policy. Introduction This study examines a significant blind spot in health inequalities research: the near-total absence of scrutiny directed toward racially…

This study examines how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as violence exposure, household substance use, and parental divorce/separation, are associated with parental incarceration among African American children in the U.S. Introduction Using a nationally representative dataset, this study investigates the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and parental incarceration among African American children in the…

This article examines the reliance on anti-bias checklists in clinical settings and the education of health professionals, noting a lack of focus on a justice-oriented clinical curriculum. Introduction Wyatt and Randall examine the limitations of using anti-bias checklists which are intended to address and mitigate health inequities in the education of health professionals. Inequities can…

This scoping review examines and analyzes literature regarding ways structural racism contributes to racial disparities and health inequities in chronic pain. Introduction In their 2022 article, Letzen et al. explore the relationship between structural racism and chronic pain disparities in the United States. Building upon existing literature that documents racial differences in pain treatment, this…

Introduction This article examines how racial bias shapes perceptions of grief after fatal police shootings. The authors ask whether people in the United States perceive the families of Black victims as experiencing different levels of emotional pain than families of white victims, and how these perceptions affect support for police accountability. The paper builds on…

 A survey of two decades of literature exploring faculty of color’s experience in academia. Introduction Academic institutions endeavor to increase diversity within their faculty as they attempt to better meet the needs of increasingly diverse student populations entering an increasingly diverse world. Still, in 2005, people of color comprised only 17% of full-time faculty. Of…

Introduction This study seeks to evaluate whether policies and laws that were classified as either protective or harmful are associated with premature mortality rates. In essence, the analysis is a new method for measuring structural racism and estimating the joint effects of multiple laws on racial health equity. In the study, laws are deemed as…

Introduction This study empirically evaluates how the implementation of a new program rating residents, termed “Milestone,” reduced      bias against Asian, Latino, and Black residents. The Milestone program utilizes new forms of performance evaluation, including competency trainings and knowledge-based questions for residents to evaluate their clinical excellence. The study used linear regression models and robustness checks…

Introduction This study evaluates the links between Black representation among primary care physicians (PCPs) and health outcomes for Black individuals in the United States. It investigates whether having higher levels of Black PCP representation at the county level is linked to higher life spans and lower mortality rates of Black individuals; the study also explores…