Equity of African American Men in Headache in the United States: A Perspective From African American Headache Medicine Specialists (Part 1)

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 (10) ◽  
pp. 2473-2485
Author(s):  
Larry Charleston ◽  
Roderick C. Spears ◽  
Charles Flippen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Men ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Exploring Experiences and Perceptions of Older African American Males Aging With HIV in the Rural Southern United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Blake ◽  
Gloria A. Jones Taylor ◽  
Richard L. Sowell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Living With Hiv

The HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) epidemic in the United States remains a serious public health concern. Despite treatment and prevention efforts, approximately 50,000 new HIV cases are transmitted each year. Estimates indicate that 44% of all people diagnosed with HIV are living in the southern region of the United States. African Americans represent 13.2% of the United States population; however, 44% (19,540) of reported new HIV cases in 2014 were diagnosed within this ethnic group. The majority of cases were diagnosed in men (73%, 14,305). In the United States, it is estimated that 21% of adults living with HIV are 50 years or older. There exists limited data regarding how well African American men are aging with HIV disease. The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions and experiences of older African American men living with HIV in rural Georgia. Data were collected from 35 older African American men living with HIV using focus groups and face-to-face personal interviews. Qualitative content analysis revealed six overlapping themes: (1) Stigma; (2) Doing Fine, Most of the Time; (3) Coping With Age-Related Diseases and HIV; (4) Self-Care; (5) Family Support; and (6) Access to Resources. The findings from this study provide new insights into the lives of rural HIV-infected African American men, expands our understanding of how they manage the disease, and why many return to or remain in rural communities.

Men Walk in Parallel!

2019 ◽  
pp. 249-262
Author(s):  
C. Kemal Nance
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Black Male ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Male Body ◽  
African Dance ◽  
Historical Representations

C. Kemal Nance reflects on the ways in which African American men utilize dance vocabularies in artistic and academic work. He reveals his findings through his own experiences as an African dance performer, as well as through a series of interviews with Baba Chuck Davis. Centering an analysis of gender and sexuality, Nance explores the scripted nature of these discourses while addressing the ideological implications of historical representations of the black male body, masculinity, and heteronormativity in the field of African dance in the United States.

Homelessness and HIV-Associated Risk Behavior Among African American Men Who Inject Drugs and Reside in the Urban South of the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (S2) ◽  
pp. 70-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura F. Salazar ◽  
Richard A. Crosby ◽  
David R. Holtgrave ◽  
Sara Head ◽  
Benjamin Hadsock ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Risk Behavior ◽  
African American Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban South

scholarly journals Managing Hypertension in African American Men

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Elise Eubanks ◽  
Elisa Mone't Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
African Americans ◽  
African American Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nursing Graduate ◽  
College Of Nursing

Hypertension is the "silent killer" especially in African Americans in the United States specifically, African American men. Two Prairie Viw A&M University's College of Nursing graduate students implemented a project to educate African American men on the management of hypertension in Houston's 3rd Ward neighborhood where they feel most comfortable...the barbershop.

Mortality, Incarceration, and African American Disenfranchisement in the Contemporary United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Cottrell ◽  
Michael C. Herron ◽  
Javier M. Rodriguez ◽  
Daniel A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Premature Death ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Right

On account of poor living conditions, African Americans in the United States experience disproportionately high rates of mortality and incarceration compared with Whites. This has profoundly diminished the number of voting-eligible African Americans in the country, costing, as of 2010, approximately 3.9 million African American men and women the right to vote and amounting to a national African American disenfranchisement rate of 13.2%. Although many disenfranchised African Americans have been stripped of voting rights by laws targeting felons and ex-felons, the majority are literally “missing” from their communities due to premature death and incarceration. Leveraging variation in gender ratios across the United States, we show that missing African Americans are concentrated in the country’s Southeast and that African American disenfranchisement rates in some legislative districts lie between 20% and 40%. Despite the many successes of the Voting Rights Act and the civil rights movement, high levels of African American disenfranchisement remain a continuing feature of the American polity.

328: Are the Partin Tables Accurate for African-American men in the United States?

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 111-111
Author(s):  
Elizabeth I. Heath ◽  
Michael W. Kattan ◽  
Isaac J. Powell ◽  
Wael Sakr ◽  
Timothy C. Brand ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Men ◽  
The United States

Straight Black Queer: Obama, Code-Switching, and the Gender Anxiety of African American Men

PMLA ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 129 (3) ◽  
pp. 464-470
Author(s):  
Vershawn Ashanti Young
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
White House ◽  
Black Queer ◽  
Cover Up

Globe magazine featured a “world exclusive,” not even a year into Barack Obama's first term as president of the united states, charging him with homosexual infidelity and his wife, Michelle, with coordinating a cover-up (“Obama Gay Cover-Up!”). The magazine followed up two months later, asserting that Obama's lover resided in the White House and was none other than his personal aide, Reggie Love (“Obama's Gay Lover”). Globe, of course, is a dime-store rag whose mission is to sensationalize. I refer to it here because it is perhaps the most relentless among a slew of white-run media outlets that consistently and unfavorably queer Obama, amplifying his nonnormative masculine traits and then, on that basis, assigning him a deceitful, nonheteronormative sexuality.

Abstract P115: The Epidemiological Profile Of CKD Among African American Men And Women: Findings From The Jackson Heart Study

Hypertension ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 76 (Suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kia Monique Jones ◽  
Kia Monique Jones
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
African Americans ◽  
African American Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Minority Populations ◽  
Rapid Progression ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
History Of

The prevalence of CKD is paramount. CKD affects almost 1 in 7 adults in the United States and is associated with increased rates of cardiovascular disease. While African Americans make up about 13 percent of the population, they account for 35 percent of the people with kidney failure in the United States. The prevalence of early CKD is equivalent across racial and ethnic groups in the United States, but CKD progresses to end-stage renal disease far more rapidly in minority populations, with rates nearly four times higher in African Americans than in whites. The purpose of this study is to address the emergence of chronic disease complications in the African American community that focuses on associations with prevalent CKD outcomes in the JHS. Epidemiological study design used to access the preliminary data to derive conclusions about CKD. CKD was assessed by the JHS participants, who self-reported their CKD status/history. CKD was measured using the Renal form and History of CKD form that was given as a questionnaire within the JHS during Examination 1 Period. CKD was measured by Jackson Heart Study’s estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) <60 mL/min/1.73 m2 to determine CKD status. African Americans have a disproportionate burden of CKD, which tends to have an earlier onset and a more rapid progression in this population. From a population health standpoint, CKD factors such as smoking, diabetes, history of hypertension, dietary patterns, physical activity, blood apolipoproteins and psychosocial factors account for more than 90% of the population-attributable risk. African American men and women with CKD is viewed among the highest-risk groups for cardiovascular events and disease. Race and ethnicity are associated with sociocultural and biologic variations that influence the risk and progression of CKD. Understanding these factors for minority populations can help in targeting interventions to decrease the disproportionately high rates of CKD progression and complications. As prevalence of chronic disease increased, public health’s focus on health- related behaviors and risk factors shifted the discipline’s attention to considering the neighborhood's influence on social determinants of health.

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