Conceptual Mapping: Unpacking the Causes of Structural Racism in Healthcare

Efforts to account for structural racism in healthcare require an understanding of the web-like structures and connections that reinforce disparities and racist systems that negatively affect health and wellbeing.

Understanding the connections that exist between systems and practices—both inside and outside of the healthcare system—that perpetuate inequities and racism can inform strategies to tackle them head-on. This conceptual map brings to life often-abstract connections that fuel racism, including:

Inequitable societal norms and values
Historically racist structures, including laws and policies that perpetuate racism
Racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare experiences and outcomes.

Learn how a greater understanding of the far-reaching and ubiquitous nature of structural racism in healthcare and society at large can better inform community-driven interventions and more effective policy solutions.

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