Am J Epidemiol. 2022 Mar 24;191(4):548-551. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwab261.
In their article, Adkins-Jackson et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2022;191(4):539-547) provide much needed insight on current approaches and challenges to epidemiologic research on structural racism. The authors encourage researchers to consider how structural racism is conceptualized in extant and future work, and whether existing measures accurately reflect the multidimensional nature of structural racism. In the spirit of continuing this conversation, I expand upon approaches to measuring structural racism. I compare the merits and challenges of scales, indexes, indicators, and policy-based measures of structural racism for use in epidemiologic research.
阿德金斯-杰克逊等人在他们的文章中(《美国流行病学杂志》。2022;191(4):539-547)提供了当前结构性种族主义流行病学研究方法和挑战的宝贵见解。作者鼓励研究人员考虑如何在现有和未来的工作中概念化结构性种族主义,以及现有的衡量标准是否准确反映结构性种族主义的多维性质。本着继续这一对话的精神,我扩展了衡量结构性种族主义的方法。我比较了在流行病学研究中使用的结构性种族主义量表、指数、指标和基于政策的衡量标准的优缺点和挑战。