Abstract：
OBJECTIVE: Family planning researchers have not critically engaged with topics of race, racism, and associated concepts like ethnicity. This lack of engagement contributes to the reproduction of research that reifies racial hierarchies rather than illuminates, and interrupts, the processes by which racism affects health. This research practice support paper lays out considerations and best practices for addressing race and racism in quantitative family planning research.
METHODS: We are scholars with racialized identities and expertise in racial health equity in family planning research. We draw from scholarship and guidance across disciplines to examine common shortcomings in the use and analysis of race and racism and propose practices for rigorous use of these concepts in quantitative family planning research.
RESULTS: We recommend articulating the role of race and racism in the development of the research question, authorship and positionality, study design, data collection, analytic approach, and interpretation of analyses. Definitions of relevant concepts and additional resources are provided.
CONCLUSIONS: Family planning and racism are inextricably linked. Failing to name and analyze the pathways through which structural racism affects family planning and the people who need or want to plan if, when, or how to become pregnant or parent may reproduce harmful and incorrect beliefs about the causes of health inequities and the attributes of Black, Indigenous, and other people racialized as non-white. Family planning researchers should critically study racism and race with procedures grounded in appropriate and articulated theory, evidence, and analytic approaches.
CONCLUSIONS: Family planning research can better contribute to efforts to eliminate racialized health inequities, and avoid perpetuating harmful beliefs and conceptualizations of race, by ensuring that they study race and racism with procedures grounded in appropriate and articulated theory, evidence, and analytic approaches.
METHODS: We are scholars with racialized identities and expertise in racial health equity in family planning research. We draw from scholarship and guidance across disciplines to examine common shortcomings in the use and analysis of race and racism and propose practices for rigorous use of these concepts in quantitative family planning research.
RESULTS: We recommend articulating the role of race and racism in the development of the research question, authorship and positionality, study design, data collection, analytic approach, and interpretation of analyses. Definitions of relevant concepts and additional resources are provided.
CONCLUSIONS: Family planning and racism are inextricably linked. Failing to name and analyze the pathways through which structural racism affects family planning and the people who need or want to plan if, when, or how to become pregnant or parent may reproduce harmful and incorrect beliefs about the causes of health inequities and the attributes of Black, Indigenous, and other people racialized as non-white. Family planning researchers should critically study racism and race with procedures grounded in appropriate and articulated theory, evidence, and analytic approaches.
CONCLUSIONS: Family planning research can better contribute to efforts to eliminate racialized health inequities, and avoid perpetuating harmful beliefs and conceptualizations of race, by ensuring that they study race and racism with procedures grounded in appropriate and articulated theory, evidence, and analytic approaches.
摘要：
目标：计划生育研究人员没有严格地参与种族主题，种族主义,以及种族等相关概念。这种缺乏参与有助于再现种族等级制度而不是阐明的研究，和中断，种族主义影响健康的过程。本研究实践支持文件列出了在定量计划生育研究中解决种族和种族主义的考虑因素和最佳实践。
方法：我们是在计划生育研究中种族健康公平方面具有种族身份和专业知识的学者。我们从跨学科的学术和指导中汲取经验，以研究种族和种族主义的使用和分析中的共同缺点，并提出在定量计划生育研究中严格使用这些概念的做法。
结果：我们建议阐明种族和种族主义在研究问题发展中的作用，作者身份和位置性，研究设计，数据收集，分析方法，和分析的解释。提供了相关概念的定义和附加资源。
结论：计划生育和种族主义密不可分。未能命名和分析结构性种族主义影响计划生育和需要或想要计划的人的途径，when,或如何怀孕或父母可能会重现有关健康不平等原因和黑人属性的有害和不正确的信念，土著,和其他种族为非白人的人。计划生育研究人员应以适当和明确的理论为基础，批判性地研究种族主义和种族，证据,和分析方法。
结论：计划生育研究可以更好地促进消除种族化的健康不平等，并避免使有害的信仰和种族观念永存，通过确保他们以适当和明确的理论为基础的程序研究种族和种族主义，证据,和分析方法。
方法：我们是在计划生育研究中种族健康公平方面具有种族身份和专业知识的学者。我们从跨学科的学术和指导中汲取经验，以研究种族和种族主义的使用和分析中的共同缺点，并提出在定量计划生育研究中严格使用这些概念的做法。
结果：我们建议阐明种族和种族主义在研究问题发展中的作用，作者身份和位置性，研究设计，数据收集，分析方法，和分析的解释。提供了相关概念的定义和附加资源。
结论：计划生育和种族主义密不可分。未能命名和分析结构性种族主义影响计划生育和需要或想要计划的人的途径，when,或如何怀孕或父母可能会重现有关健康不平等原因和黑人属性的有害和不正确的信念，土著,和其他种族为非白人的人。计划生育研究人员应以适当和明确的理论为基础，批判性地研究种族主义和种族，证据,和分析方法。
结论：计划生育研究可以更好地促进消除种族化的健康不平等，并避免使有害的信仰和种族观念永存，通过确保他们以适当和明确的理论为基础的程序研究种族和种族主义，证据,和分析方法。
