Improving the quality of publications on structural racism in healthcare

In 2021 the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that structural racism was a public health threat.1 In January 2022 The BMJ considered how to solve a problem as entrenched as racism in health research.23Unfortunately, there are challenges to creating and disseminating scholarship on racism in the academic medical literature. We have made recommendations for editors to enhance the review and selection process to facilitate more frequent publication of articles on structural racism in medicine.4 Our main recommendations are:Clinical journal editors need to eliminate publication and readership barriers for articles discussing structural racism in medicine—currently, high publication and subscription fees disproportionately affect access to these articles56Clinical journal editors should recruit and compensate experts in structural racism to serve as editors, editors-in-chief, editorial board members, and peer reviewers Journals should ensure diversity and inclusivity at all levels of the publication process by collecting and providing anonymous demographic data…
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