Mahmood Hina, Mejia Pamela, Schaff Katherine, Labiran Catherine, Morales Xavier, Dorfman Lori
Berkeley Media Studies Group, Berkeley, California, USA.
The Praxis Project, Oakland, California, USA.
Health Equity. 2025 Jan 8;9(1):1-7. doi: 10.1089/heq.2023.0276. eCollection 2025.
To understand how declarations of racism as a public health crisis were portrayed in the news from 2019 to 2021.
We assessed a national sample of articles ( = 127) to see how declarations of racism as a public health crisis were characterized in the news.
Coverage skyrocketed in June 2020 with 800 articles in that month alone, many of which mentioned systemic or structural racism (43% of articles). Government speakers were quoted in 90% of articles while community voices only appeared in 24% of articles.
Narratives that center the causes of structural and systemic racism can help inform the public about the health harms of racism and can also report on solutions to achieve health and racial equity that could influence policymakers and the public.
Those proposing new declarations should make concerted efforts to ensure that these declarations generate news coverage, without relying on acts of violence against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities. Public health practitioners, advocates, and officials should center communities most impacted and help them in creating a system that addresses racial and health inequities.
了解2019年至2021年新闻中如何描述将种族主义宣布为公共卫生危机这一情况。
我们评估了一个全国性的文章样本（n = 127），以查看新闻中如何描述将种族主义宣布为公共卫生危机这一情况。
2020年6月报道量激增，仅该月就有800篇文章，其中许多文章提到了系统性或结构性种族主义（占文章的43%）。90%的文章引用了政府发言人的话，而社区声音仅出现在24%的文章中。
以结构性和系统性种族主义的成因作为核心的叙述有助于让公众了解种族主义对健康的危害，还能报道实现健康和种族公平的解决方案，这可能会影响政策制定者和公众。
那些提议发布新声明的人应齐心协力确保这些声明能获得新闻报道，而不依赖针对黑人、原住民和有色人种（BIPOC）社区的暴力行为。公共卫生从业者、倡导者和官员应以受影响最大的社区为核心，并帮助他们建立一个解决种族和健康不平等问题的体系。
