@article{ref1,
title="Race, structural racism and racial disparities in firearm homicide victimisation",
journal="Injury prevention",
year="2022",
author="Conrick, Kelsey M. and Adhia, Avanti and Ellyson, Alice and Haviland, Miriam Joan and Lyons, Vivian H. and Mills, Brianna and Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To identify an approach in measuring the association between structural racism and racial disparities in firearm homicide victimisation focusing on racism, rather than race. <br><br>METHODS: We examined associations of six measures of structural racism (Black/white disparity ratios in poverty, education, labour force participation, rental housing, single-parent households and index crime arrests) with state-level Black-white disparities in US age-adjusted firearm homicide victimisation rates 2010-2019. We regressed firearm homicide victimisation disparities on four specifications of independent variables: (1) absolute measure only; (2) absolute measure and per cent Black; (3) absolute measure and Black-white disparity ratio and (4) absolute measure, per cent Black and disparity ratio. <br><br>RESULTS: For all six measures of structural racism the optimal specification included the absolute measure and Black-white disparity ratio and did not include per cent Black. Coefficients for the Black-white disparity were statistically significant, while per cent Black was not. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: In the presence of structural racism measures, the inclusion of per cent Black did not contribute to the explanation of firearm homicide disparities in this study. <br><br>FINDINGS provide empiric evidence for the preferred use of structural racism measures instead of race.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1353-8047",
doi="10.1136/ip-2022-044788",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ip-2022-044788"
}