Department of Dental Public health, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
iCubed Oral Health Core, L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs and Department of Dental Public Health and Policy, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA.
J Public Health Dent. 2022 Mar;82 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):73-78. doi: 10.1111/jphd.12503.
Racism is understudied in the oral health literature at the same time that race is overutilized as an explanatory factor in study design. Social and behavioral methodologies offer conceptual models that can be used to include racism in dental public health questions. In addition, interdisciplinary and mixed methods approaches allow for understanding racism as an underlying cause of social and health disparities and exploring solutions that address historical, institutional, social, political, and economic drivers of oral health inequity, while recognizing the limits of measuring racism quantitatively. In a collective acknowledgement of the limitations of conventional methods, there are new opportunities to explore how qualitative and mixed methods research can serve as drivers for both social justice and health equity, while building and sustaining a diverse research workforce that can better close these disparities and offer antiracist solutions to oral health inequities.
与此同时，种族问题在口腔健康文献中研究不足，而在研究设计中却被过度用作解释因素。社会和行为方法提供了可以用于将种族主义纳入牙科公共卫生问题的概念模型。此外，跨学科和混合方法方法可以将种族主义理解为社会和健康差距的根本原因，并探索解决历史、制度、社会、政治和经济驱动口腔健康不平等的方法，同时认识到定量衡量种族主义的局限性。在对传统方法的局限性的集体承认中，有新的机会来探讨定性和混合方法研究如何既能促进社会正义又能促进健康公平，同时建立和维持一支多元化的研究队伍，以更好地缩小这些差距，并为口腔健康不平等提供反种族主义解决方案。
