• J Law Med Ethics · Sep 2020

    Structural Racism and Health Disparities: Reconfiguring the Social Determinants of Health Framework to Include the Root Cause.

    • Ruqaiijah Yearby.
    • Ruqaiijah Yearby, J.D., M.P.H., is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity at Saint Louis University and Professor of Law and Member of the Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University.
    • J Law Med Ethics. 2020 Sep 1; 48 (3): 518-526.

    AbstractThe government recognizes that social factors cause racial inequalities in access to resources and opportunities that result in racial health disparities. However, this recognition fails to acknowledge the root cause of these racial inequalities: structural racism. As a result, racial health disparities persist.

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