Structural Health and the Politics of African American Masculinity

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dc.contributor.authorMetzl, J. M.
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:08:26Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:08:26Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractThis commentary describes ways in which notions of African American men’s “health” attained by individual choice—embedded in the notion that African American men should visit doctors or engage in fewer risky behaviors—are at times in tension with larger cultural, economic, and political notions of “health.” It argues that efforts to improve the health of Black men must take structural factors into account, and failure to do so circumvents even well-intentioned efforts to improve health outcomes. Using historical examples, the article shows how attempts to identify and intervene into what are now called social determinants of health are strengthened by addressing on-the-ground diagnostic disparities and also the structural violence and racism embedded within definitions of illness and health. And, that, as such, we need to monitor structural barriers to health that exist in institutions ostensibly set up to incarcerate or contain Black men and in institutions ostensibly set up to help them.
dc.description.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988313486512
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/pyun-qmua
dc.identifier.citationMetzl, J. M. (2013) Structural Health and the Politics of African American Masculinity. American Journal of Men's Health, 7 (4 Supp). 68S.
dc.identifier.issn1557-9883
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 4158
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/24622
dc.subjectMen's Health
dc.subjectHealth
dc.titleStructural Health and the Politics of African American Masculinity
dc.typeArticle

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