A systematic review of empirical research on self-reported racism and health
| dc.contributor.author | Paradies, Yin | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-14T15:00:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-08-14T15:00:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper reviews 138 empirical quantitative population-based studies of self-reported racism and health. These studies show an association between self-reported racism and ill health for oppressed racial groups after adjustment for a range of confounders. The strongest and most consistent findings are for negative mental health outcomes and health-related behaviours, with weaker associations existing for positive mental health outcomes, self-assessed health status, and physical health outcomes. Most studies in this emerging field have been published in the past 5 years and have been limited by a dearth of cohort studies, a lack of psychometrically validated exposure instruments, poor conceptualization and definition of racism, conflation of racism with stress, and debate about the aetiologically relevant period for self-reported racism. Future research should examine the psychometric validity of racism instruments and include these instruments, along with objectively measured health outcomes, in existing large-scale survey vehicles as well as longitudinal studies and studies involving children. There is also a need to gain a better understanding of the perception, attribution, and reporting of racism, to investigate the pathways via which self-reported racism affects health, the interplay between mental and physical health outcomes, and exposure to intra-racial, internalized, and systemic racism. Ensuring the quality of studies in this field will allow future research to reveal the complex role that racism plays as a determinant of population health. | |
| dc.description.uri | http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/35/4/888.long | |
| dc.identifier | https://doi.org/10.13016/9oq8-xmx4 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Paradies, Yin (2006) A systematic review of empirical research on self-reported racism and health. International Journal of Epidemiology, 35 (4). pp. 888-901. | |
| dc.identifier.other | Eprint ID 786 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/22785 | |
| dc.subject | Health Equity | |
| dc.subject | Disparities | |
| dc.subject | Mental Health | |
| dc.subject | Health Risk Factors | |
| dc.subject | Stress | |
| dc.subject | Research | |
| dc.subject | Race | |
| dc.subject | ethnic groups | |
| dc.subject | racism | |
| dc.subject | discrimination | |
| dc.subject | stress | |
| dc.subject | review | |
| dc.title | A systematic review of empirical research on self-reported racism and health | |
| dc.type | Article |