Methods for the Scientific Study of Discrimination and Health: An Ecosocial Approach

作者：Krieger, Nancy^*

来源：American Journal of Public Health, 2012, 102(5): 936-945.

DOI：10.2105/AJPH.2011.300544

• AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN
• IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST
• SELF-RATED HEALTH
• J PUBLIC-HEALTH
• RACIAL-DISCRIMINATION
• EVERYDAY DISCRIMINATION
• UNITED-STATES
• BLOOD-PRESSURE
• PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS
• RACIAL/ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION

The scientific study of how discrimination harms health requires theoretically grounded methods. At issue is how discrimination,as one form of societal injustice, becomes embodied inequality and is manifested as health inequities. @@@ As clarified by ecosocial theory, methods must address the lived realities of discrimination as an exploitative and oppressive societal phenomenon operating at multiple levels and involving myriad pathways across both the life course and historical generations. @@@ An integrated embodied research approach hence must consider (1) the structural level past and present de lure and de facto discrimination; (2) the individual level issues of domains, nativity, and use of both explicit and implicit discrimination measures; and (3) how current research methods likely underestimate the impact of racism on health. (Am J Public Health. 2012;102:936-945. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300544)

• 出版日期2012-5