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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What Black Barbers and Stylists say to Scientists
(2020-02-20)What Black Barbers and Stylists Say to Scientists: No Research on Us Without Us An Innovation Design Studio on Biomedical Clinical Trials and the Role of Black Barbershops and Salons in Recruitment and Retention ... -
Feasibility Study of Engaging Barbershops for Prostate Cancer Education in Rural African-American Communities
(2015)The barbershop is a promising setting where African-American men might receive information and education about prostate cancer. In this study, we assessed the feasibility of engaging rural barbershops as venues for barbers ... -
A Survey of African American Men in Chicago Barbershops: Implications for the Effectiveness of the Barbershop Model in the Health Promotion of African American Men
(2016)The barbershop has been used to target African American (AA) men across age groups for health screenings, health interventions, and for research. However, few studies explore the sociodemographic characteristics of barbers ... -
Strategies for Recruiting African American Men into Prostate Cancer Screening Studies
(Nursing Research, 2010)Background Recruitment for research and clinical trials continues to be challenging. Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in men and disproportionately affects African American men; thus, effective recruitment ... -
A Cluster-Randomized Trial of Blood-Pressure Reduction in Black Barbershops
(The New England Journal of Medicine, 2018)BACKGROUND Uncontrolled hypertension is a major problem among non-Hispanic black men, who are underrepresented in pharmacist intervention trials in traditional health care settings. METHODS We enrolled a cohort of 319 black ...
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