By Taneisha Fair, Image: Screenshot from article, The Center For Community Solutions, February 27, 2023
We’ve written about the steps that can be taken by institutions to help end racism as a public health crisis. One prevalent issue that must be addressed in that process is the failure to examine racism in medical journals and publish health research that reports on its impacts.
Health Affairs published a report in 2021 that analyzed how many scientific articles mentioning the word “racism” were published between 1990 and 2020, by the top four medical journals—the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), The Lancet, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Publications in the American Journal Public Health (AJPH) were also searched and used as a comparison to the other 4 journals. The analysis built upon a previous 2018 literature review that examined articles in 50 public health journals published between 2002 and 2015.
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