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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
4010.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 9:15 AM

Abstract #118310

Colon Cancer Screening Among Black Men In Southside Chicago Barbershops

Thomas Mason, MD1, Matthew Green2, Bonnie Pete Thomas, MD1, Marcus Murray3, Craig Spivey3, and Bayatae Abraham4. (1) Project Brotherhood: Woodlawn Health Center, 6337 S. Woodlawn, Chicago, IL 60637, 312-747-7705, jazzroots@aol.com, (2) Project Brotherhood, 6337 S. Woodlawn Ave., 6337 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL 60607, (3) Woodlawn Health Center, Project Brotherhood, Woodlawn Health Center, 6337 S Woodlawn, Chicago, IL 60637, (4) Woodlawn Clinic, Project Brotherhood, 6337 S Woodlawn, Chicago, IL 60637

Background: Project Brotherhood is a program designed by and for Black men. The program is located in a Chicago health center, which is part of the Ambulatory and Community Health Network (ACHN) of the Cook County Bureau of Health Services. ACHN operates 23 public health centers with over 760,000 annual visits. PB assumes a broad concept of health resting on the international perspectives of the World Health Organization definition, the People's Health Charter and the Canadian model of determinants of health. The purpose of Project Brotherhood is: 1) to create a safe, respectful, male friendly “place” where a wide range of health and social issues confronting black men can be addressed; 2) expand the range of health care for men of color and abandon the “medical model” paradigm of health service delivery.

Methods: Project Brotherhood has designed a program to increase the awareness about colon-rectal cancer screening among black men. PB developed a twelve hour culturally specific curriculum for barbers. Eleven barbers were trained from five barbershops and have begun educating their clientele. Educational information and instructions for FOBT are at each shop, and clients may return their tests to the barbershop or the health center.

Conclusion: We will present the Project Brotherhood Logic Model and a process evaluation of our colon cancer prevention program to date. This will include analysis of pre-test and post-test data, directed interviews of barbers and a focus group of Black men.

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Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

Structural Inequalities in Black Health: Analysis and Recommendations

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