Tag: Race
Equitable Development Toolkit
Toolkit to create equity across the board, especially racial equity.
FrameWorks Institute
Toolkit to discover and communicate racial-equity policies
Health Research and Educational Trust Disparities Toolkit
Provides hospitals and health systems with information about race, ethnicity, and language data from patients
Intersectionality Theory
Intersectionality theory was developed to address the non-additivity of effects of sex/gender and race/ethnicity but extendable to other domains, allows for the potential to study health and disease at different intersections of identity, social position, … Continued
John Henryism
A strong personality predisposition influenced by race to cope actively with psychosocial environmental stressors. High levels of John Henryism can contribute to hypertension.
Resource Deprivation Theory
Inequities exist because minorities are more likely than whites to live in communities that are deprived and lack the necessary infrastructure for a healthy lifestyle. One study demonstrated an association between the location of food … Continued
Social Disorganization Theory
Social disorganization is defined as an inability of community members to achieve shared values or to solve jointly experienced problems (Bursik, 1988). In recent decades, the themes of social disorganization theory have been more clearly … Continued
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Toolkit about racial equity for children and communities: Race Matters Collection.
The Weathering Hypothesis
Racial inequality poses health risks for minority populations, which contributes to greater chances of health problems at older ages, especially linked to black women bearing children with lower birthweights than white women as mother’s age … Continued