Saffron Karlsen

TL;DR: The different ways in which racism may manifest itself (as interpersonal violence, institutional discrimination, or socioeconomic disadvantage) all have independent detrimental effects on health, regardless of the health indicator used.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematic review of studies that examine relationships between reported racial discrimination and child and youth health was provided, with statistically significant associations with racial discrimination found in 76% of outcomes examined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report associations between self-reported experience of racial discrimination and health in New Zealand, using data from the 2002/2003 New Zealand Health Survey, a cross-sectional survey involving face-to-face interviews with 12,500 people.

TL;DR: Assessment of prevalence of experiences of self-reported racial discrimination in Māori and Europeans and the effect of adjustment for experience of racial discrimination and deprivation on ethnic inequalities for various health outcomes concluded that interventions and policies to improve Mâori health and address these inequalities should take into account the health effects of racism.

TL;DR: It is suggested that patients with CLD at the end of life have physical and psychosocial needs at least as severe as patients with lung cancer.