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5020.0: Wednesday, November 10, 2004: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
Oral | |||
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| While all men are reluctant health care consumers and male health in general is worse than that of their female counterparts, African American males experience shorter life expectancy than White males (67.6 vs. 74.5 years) and all other race ethnicities. The gap of life expectancy between Black and White males widened between 1980 and 1991 from 6.9 to 8.3 years. Their death rate from heart disease is 1.5 times that of Black women and 2 times that of Caucasian males. The US age adjusted annual prostate cancer rate for Black men is more then double that for Caucasians (72.8 vs. 31.2 per 100,000) and their incidence rate is the highest in the world. While SES remains a strong predictor of health status, it alone does not explain the gap in health outcomes seen across any number of health indicators. Blacks overall tend to have the poorest health outcomes including mental health outcomes of any group. They are targeted by the tobacco industry resulting in high use and related diseases. The session will examine the health status of Black males in the US and identify and explore health disparities of this often overlooked group including prostate cancer, smoking, and mental health. We will discuss how Black men compare to others and present research on Black males’ experiences, challenges and explanations for these disparities. Social, ecological and systems barriers will be examined, as will possible avenues to get Black males involved in their health care and in organized community-based health planning processes. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1. At the conclusion of the session the participants will be able to describe the status of African American/Black male health 2. At the conclusion of the session the participants will be able to identify at least 2 effective mechanisms to engage African American males in their own health care and in the empowerment of their community as active participants in health care planning efforts aimed at “bridging the health care disparity gap”. | |||
| Susanna Montgomery, PhD, MPH | |||
Social ecological correlates and predictors of access to prostate cancer prevention ![[ Recorded presentation ]](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif){kind=small} Virginia Diane Woods, DrPH Candidate, Susanne B. Montgomery, PhD, MPH, Daniel Stokols, PhD, Patti Herring, PhD, RN, Robert Gardner, PhD | |||
| Surviving prostate cancer: A black male's experience John Futch, Virginia Diane Woods, DrPH Candidate, Susanne B. Montgomery, PhD, MPH | |||
| Predictors of PSA screening for prostate cancer from NHIS 2000 data Nasar U. Ahmed, PhD | |||
| Characteristics of effective health outreach to African-American male youth: The "Smoking Isn't Cool" campaign Jean J. E. Bonhomme, MD, MPH, Ronald L. Braithwaite, PhD | |||
| Perceptions of African American/blacks toward prevention and treatment healthcare services Ahlam Jadalla, MSN, PhD Student, Irene Agutu Oduor, BSN, MPH Student, Iris Mamier, MSN, PhD Student, Paneet Kakkar, MB, MPH Student, Susanne B. Montgomery, PhD, MPH, Virginia Diane Woods, DrPH Candidate, Patti Herring, PhD, RN | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Community Health Planning and Policy Development | ||
| Endorsed by: | Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Socialist Caucus | ||
| CE Credits: | CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing | ||