Minority Health and Health Equity Archive

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Welcome to the Minority Health and Health Equity Archive (MHHEA), an electronic archive for digital resource materials in the fields of minority health and health disparities research and policy. It is offered as a no-charge resource to the public, academic scholars and health science researchers interested in the elimination of racial and ethnic health disparities.

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    Practice Notes: Strategies in Health Education Program, “Full Service”: Talking About Fighting Prostate Cancer—in the Barber Shop!
    (2007) Browne, Mario; Lieberman, Lisa D.; Hager, Barbara
    The purpose of this project is to promote prostate cancer screening, education about disease risk and the importance of early detection, and survivorship among African American males who frequent African American–owned barber shops.
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    Article Review: Black Men With Highest Prostate Cancer Risk Have Lowest Screening Rates
    (2006) Weinrich, Sally
    African-American men with a family history of prostate cancer are the least likely to be tested for prostate cancer than African-American men without a family history, survey results suggest. Previous epidemiological studies have suggested prostate cancer occurs at a higher prevalence and with greater morbidity in African-American men than in most other racial or ethnic groups. Dr. Sally P. Weinrich, from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, and colleagues looked at the rates of previous digital rectal examination and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening in 134 African American men, ages 40 to 69 years, enrolled in the African American Hereditary Prostate Cancer Study (AAHPC), all of the subjects had four or more relatives affected by prostate cancer.
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    Challenges to Masculine Transformation Among Urban Low-Income African American Males
    (2003) Aronson, Robert E; Whitehead, Tony L; Baber, Willie L
    In this article we describe and analyze the challenges faced by an intervention program that addresses the fatherhood needs of low-income urban African American males. We used life history as the primary research strategy for a qualitative evaluation of a program we refer to as the Healthy Men in Healthy Families Program to better understand the circumstances and trajectory of men's lives, including how involement in the program might have benefitted them in the pursuit of their fatherhood goals. A model of masculine transformation, developed by Whitehead, was used to interpret changes in manhood.fatherhood attitudes and behaviors that might be associated with the intervention. We combined Whitehead's model with a social ecology framework to further interpret challenges at intrapersonal, interpersonal, community, and broader societal levels.