Preferences for HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis Products Among Black Women in the U.S.

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Whitney C. Irie ◽  
Sarah K. Calabrese ◽  
Rupa R. Patel ◽  
Kenneth H. Mayer ◽  
Elvin H. Geng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Preexposure Prophylaxis ◽  
The U.S

Abstract 15642: Race Sex Disparities in Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Hospitalized Patients With Diabetes, 2005-2015 Potential Warning Signs for Future U.S. Public Health

Circulation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (Suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gursukhman Sidhu ◽  
Charisse J Ward ◽  
Keith Ferdinand
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Renal Failure ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
White Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Secondary Diagnosis ◽  
The U.S

Introduction: Despite a recent gradually slowing and perhaps recent increase in the burden of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) related hospitalization in the United States population with diabetes, it is unclear whether the prior downward trend was uniform or there was an unbalanced division amongst sex and race. Methods: Adults aged ≥40 years old with comorbid diabetes as a secondary diagnosis were identified using the U.S. 2005-2015 National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS) data. The prevalence of other modifiable cardiovascular risk factors (hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking/substance abuse, obesity, and renal failure), procedures like major amputations in the secondary diagnosis field and their association with ASCVD (acute coronary syndrome (ACS), coronary artery disease (CAD), stroke, or peripheral arterial disease (PAD)) as the first-listed diagnosis were determined. Complex samples multivariate regression was used to determine the odds ratio (O.D.) with 95% confidence limits (C.L.s). Sex and race risk-adjusted ASCVD related in-hospital mortality rates were estimated. Results: The rate of total ASCVD hospitalizations adjusted to the U.S. census population increased by 5.7% for black men compared to 4% for black women cumulatively compared to a stable downtrend in white men and white women. There was a higher odd of an ASCVD hospitalizations if there was comorbid hypertension (Odds Ratio (OR 1.29; 95% Confidence Interval (CI) 95% 1.28 - 1.31), dyslipidemia (OR 2.03; 95% CI 2.01 - 2.05), renal failure (OR 1.84; 95% CI 1.82 - 1.86), and smoking/substance use disorder (OR 1.31; 95% CI 1.29 - 1.33). When compared to white men, black men (OR 1.43; 95% CI 1.3 - 1.57) and black women (OR 1.15; 95% CI 1.04 - 1.27) had a higher likelihood of undergoing a major limb amputation during an ASCVD hospitalization. Conclusions: Blacks with diabetes continue to have a higher hospitalizations burden with a concomitant disparity in procedures and outcomes.

Black Parents as Achievement Socialization Agents for Black Girls

2018 ◽  
pp. 762-773
Author(s):  
Jemimah L. Young ◽  
Jamaal R. Young
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
Academic Resilience ◽  
Black Parents ◽  
Academic Identities ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Socialization Agents ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Better Than

The achievement socialization of Black girls is highly dependent upon the interactions within their sphere of socialization. Black gender socialization patterns may build an academic resilience in Black women that gives them the capacity to navigate the U.S. educational system substantially better than their male counterparts. In this chapter, the authors describe how parents and teachers can leverage the racial, disciplinary, and academic identities of Black girls to increase their performance in mathematics. This chapter equips teachers and parents with explicit tools to build on the trends observed in prior research. These tools can help parents and teachers build bridges to mathematics success for Black girls.

scholarly journals Lifetime and Twelve-Month Prevalence, Persistence, and Unmet Treatment Needs of Mood, Anxiety, and Substance Use Disorders in African American and U.S. versus Foreign-Born Caribbean Women

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (19) ◽  
pp. 7007
Author(s):  
Audrey L. Jones ◽  
Susan D. Cochran ◽  
Jane Rafferty ◽  
Robert Joseph Taylor ◽  
Vickie M. Mays
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
African American ◽  
Black Women ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Mental Health Treatment ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Treatment Needs ◽  
Health Treatment ◽  
Caribbean Women ◽  
The U.S

There is growing diversity within the Black population in the U.S., but limited understanding of ethnic and nativity differences in the mental health treatment needs of Black women. This study examined differences in the prevalence of psychiatric disorders, their persistence, and unmet treatment needs among Black women in the U.S. Data were from the National Survey of American Life, a nationally representative survey that assessed lifetime and twelve-month mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 4th Edition (DSM-IV) criteria, and mental health service use among those meeting disorder criteria. One in three African American women met criteria for a lifetime disorder, compared to one in three Caribbean women born within the U.S. and one in five Caribbean women born outside the U.S. About half of African American women with a lifetime disorder had a persistent psychiatric disorder, compared to two in five Caribbean women born within the U.S. and two in three Caribbean women born outside the U.S. African Americans had more persisting dysthymia and panic disorder and less persisting social phobia compared to foreign-born Caribbean women. Of the three groups, Caribbean women born within the U.S. were most likely to seek mental health treatment during their lifetime. These results demonstrate, despite a lower prevalence of psychiatric disorders in Black women, that there is a great likelihood their disorders will be marked by persistence and underscores the need for culturally specific treatment approaches. As Black immigrants in the United States are increasing in number, adequate mental health services are needed.

scholarly journals Legally a Lady

Contexts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Hannah Ingersoll
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Legal Culture ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
And Gender ◽  
American Society ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Right To Dignity

In a period of ambiguous legal culture between the U.S. Civil War and the legal imposition of Jim Crow, court cases reveal Black women navigating race, class, and gender as they sought a seat in the Ladies’ Car and claimed their right to dignity within American society.

Missed Opportunity for Diversity in Engineering: Black Women and Undergraduate Engineering Degree Attainment

2021 ◽  
pp. 152102512098691
Author(s):  
Trina L. Fletcher ◽  
Jay P. Jefferson ◽  
Brittany N. Boyd ◽  
Kelly J. Cross
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Degree Attainment ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Women In Engineering ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
Trend Data ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Missed Opportunity

Efforts dedicated towards broadening participation for Black and other underrepresented groups in engineering at post-secondary institutions has intensified in recent decades. However, Black women have not yet reached parity in undergraduate engineering degree attainment. To elucidate this trend, data from the U.S. Department of Education was analyzed to investigate postsecondary completion for Black women in engineering. Results indicate that the percentage of degrees awarded to Black women has slightly decreased during the last five years when compared to women of all races. However, the percentage of Black women obtaining engineering degrees has increased when compared to the general Black engineering population, with a larger percentage of Black women obtaining engineering degrees compared to their male counterparts than any other ethnicity. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to provide recommendations for research avenues that may strengthen knowledge around the enrollment and retention of Black women in engineering at post-secondary institutions.

scholarly journals The Scales of Reproductive Justice: Casey’s Failure to Rebalance Liberty Interests in the Racially Disparate State of Maternal Medicine

2020 ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Mallori Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Maternal Mortality ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Fourteenth Amendment ◽  
Mortality Data ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
The Right ◽  
Roe V Wade ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Maternal Medicine

Despite the maternal medicine crisis in the U.S., especially for Black women, legislatures are challenging constitutional abortion doctrine and forcing women to interact with a system that may cost them their lives. This Article proposes that because of abysmal maternal mortality rates and the arbitrary nature of most abortion restrictions, the right to choose an abortion is embedded in our Fourteenth Amendment right to not be arbitrarily deprived of life by the State. This Article is a call to abortion advocates to begin submitting state maternal mortality data when challenging abortion restrictions. The call for attention to life was central to the holding in Roe v. Wade and is central to rebalancing the scales of reproductive justice.

Murder of the Elderly: An Analysis of Increased Vulnerability

1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheryl Kunkle ◽  
John A. Humphrey
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Black Women ◽  
White Women ◽  
White Men ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Aggravated Assault ◽  
Homicide Victimization ◽  
Group 2 ◽  
Time Frames ◽  
The U.S

The vulnerability of older persons to murder is investigated. Data on all homicide victims sixty years of age or older in North Carolina during two time frames, 1972–1973 and 1976–1977, form the basis for the analysis. Available evidence for the U.S. indicates that the elderly are considerably less prone to criminal victimization than are younger persons. This is particularly the case for aggravated assault. Dussich and Eichman have posited that the relative low visibility of the elderly, due to social isolation and lack of mobility, make them less vulnerable to crimes against the person [1]. However this study finds that: 1) in the U.S. murder among the aged is rising faster than any other age group, 2) in North Carolina the sole rise in homicide is among the elderly, and 3) sharpest increases are noted among older black women, white women and white men. An exception to this trend are black men, previously the highest risk group of older adults, who showed a decline in homicide victimization.

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