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Dismantling "Race" in Health Research
In this era of confronting racism in public space, it is critical to keep addressing the covert systemic racism in the healthcare system. We want to bring attention to the continued unscientific practice of race-based medicine and the absurdity of treating race as a biological indicator in the 21st...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9379379/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35060400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08445621221074849 |
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author | Dordunoo, Dzifa Abernethy, Paivi Kayuni, Jenipher McConkey, Stephanie Aviles-G, Martha L. |
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description | In this era of confronting racism in public space, it is critical to keep addressing the covert systemic racism in the healthcare system. We want to bring attention to the continued unscientific practice of race-based medicine and the absurdity of treating race as a biological indicator in the 21st century. We believe race is a social construct that does not qualify as a scientific biological indicator for predicting health outcomes. In this paper, we first present arguments for inappropriate use of race in health research and then discuss alternative explanations for health disparity findings that use race as a predictor. Our main concern centers on two specific aspects of the concept of "race": (1) its fundamental lack of scientific basis as a predictor for health outcomes, (2) the misguided narrative that the term creates, placing the onus of racial discrimination on the victim, instead of highlighting the act of discrimination and the role researchers play in actively reinforcing racism when using "race" as a variable. We conclude by proposing that "race" be replaced by the variable "racism" in health. |
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spelling | pubmed-93793792022-08-17 Dismantling "Race" in Health Research Dordunoo, Dzifa Abernethy, Paivi Kayuni, Jenipher McConkey, Stephanie Aviles-G, Martha L. Can J Nurs Res Research Methodology In this era of confronting racism in public space, it is critical to keep addressing the covert systemic racism in the healthcare system. We want to bring attention to the continued unscientific practice of race-based medicine and the absurdity of treating race as a biological indicator in the 21st century. We believe race is a social construct that does not qualify as a scientific biological indicator for predicting health outcomes. In this paper, we first present arguments for inappropriate use of race in health research and then discuss alternative explanations for health disparity findings that use race as a predictor. Our main concern centers on two specific aspects of the concept of "race": (1) its fundamental lack of scientific basis as a predictor for health outcomes, (2) the misguided narrative that the term creates, placing the onus of racial discrimination on the victim, instead of highlighting the act of discrimination and the role researchers play in actively reinforcing racism when using "race" as a variable. We conclude by proposing that "race" be replaced by the variable "racism" in health. SAGE Publications 2022-01-21 2022-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9379379/ /pubmed/35060400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08445621221074849 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Research Methodology Dordunoo, Dzifa Abernethy, Paivi Kayuni, Jenipher McConkey, Stephanie Aviles-G, Martha L. Dismantling "Race" in Health Research |
title | Dismantling "Race" in Health Research |
title_full | Dismantling "Race" in Health Research |
title_fullStr | Dismantling "Race" in Health Research |
title_full_unstemmed | Dismantling "Race" in Health Research |
title_short | Dismantling "Race" in Health Research |
title_sort | dismantling "race" in health research |
topic | Research Methodology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9379379/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35060400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08445621221074849 |
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