MEDLINE Search Strategies: Institutional Racism

There is no Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) for institutional racism, but some MeSH that might describe this domain of knowledge are:

prejudice (racism maps to this term)

organizational policy

Sample search strategy using MeSH: To what extent does racism influence the risk for premature mortality?

Searching prejudice AND risk AND mortality produces these results.

 

Racism

Overview

Contribution to overall disease burden in SF

Downstream (Health Consequences)

What can be done?

Web resources

MEDLINE strategies

Updated August 12, 2003 • Please send feedback to Brian Katcher

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