Egede Lab

State University of New York at Buffalo

INTERNAL MEDICINE/MEDICINE

Amherst · United States

NIH-funded
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NIH R01 · 2024

Impact of structural racism on hospital/clinic closures, community assets, and health outcomes in urban communities

Project Summary/Abstract Structural racism, defined as the ways in which societies foster discrimination through mutually reinforcing inequitable systems, has emerged as an important social risk factor and contributor to poor health outcomes for racial/ethnic minorities (Egede 2020, Bailey 2017). Structural racism captures upstream historic racist events (such as slavery, black code laws, Jim Crow laws, and school segregation) and more recent state sanctioned racist laws in the form of redlining. Redlining refers to the practice of systematically denying various services to residents of specific neighborhoods/communities, often based on race/ethnicity (Bailey 2020). A first important link…

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