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Diversity
Hot Off the Press - New Findings
These are recent papers which provide new concepts, findings or methodological approaches relevant to the study of racism and health. We hope you will send us your “hot off the presses” work. We will select new articles to post every quarter.
Email your content to
Liz Brondolo at brondole@stjohns.edu.
| Conceptual issues |
| Krieger N. (2010) The science and epidemiology of racism and health: racial/ethnic categories, biological expressions of racism, and the embodiment of inequality – an ecosocial perspective. Whitmarsh I, Jones DS (eds). What’s the Use of Race? Genetics and Difference in Forensics, Medicine, and Scientific Research. (pp. 225-255). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. |
| This paper presents a model for integrating current thinking both about social constructions of race, environmental exposure and genetics, providing a mechanistic framework for considering the interplay of these forces in determining human health. |
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| Methodology |
| Shariff-Marco, S. Breen, N., Landrine, A., Reeve, B.B. Krieger, N., Gee, G.C., Williams, D.R., Mays, V.M., Ponce, N.A., Alegria, M., Liu, B., Willis, G., & Johnson, T. P. (2011). Measuring everyday racial/ethnic discrimination in health surveys: How best to ask the questions, in one or two stages, across multiple racial/ethnic groups? Du Bois Review, 8(1), 159–177. |
| This paper reviews the concepts and outcomes associated with different approaches to measuring self-reported racism and describes complex validation studies of a measure that can be used across ethnic groups. |
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| Hillier, A., Cole, B.L., Smith, T.E., Yancey, A.K., Williams, J.D., Grier, S.A., & McCarthy, W.J. (2009). Clustering of unhealthy outdoor advertisements around child-serving institutions: A comparison of three cities. Health & Place, 15, 935–945. |
| This paper describes research using GIS technology and observational methods to investigate the placement of food and drink advertisements. This methodology can be helpful in determining if there are variations by neighborhood demographics in the placement of ads promoting unhealthy behavior. |
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| New findings |
| Priest, N., Paradies, Y., Stewart, P., & Luke, J. (2011). Racism and health among urban Aboriginal young people, BMC Public Health, 11, 568. |
| This study examines the effects of racism on self-reported health in an understudied sample of Aboriginal people and identifies potential mediators of the relationship. |
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| Beatty, DL, Hall, M.H., Kamarack, T.A., Buysse, D.J., Owens, J.F., Reis, S.E., Mezick, E.J., Strollo, P.J., & Matthews, K.A., (2011). Unfair treatment is associated with poor sleep in African American and Caucasian adults: Pittsburgh SleepSCORE Project. Health Psychology, 30(3), 351–359. |
| This study examines the effects of unfair treatment on both a wide range of both objective and subjective measures of sleep and highlights some potential mediating pathways. |
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