Social Determinants of Health Among African-American Men

Figures and Tables v

Foreword vii
Robert M Franklin

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xiii

The Editors xv

The Contributors xvii

1 Introduction to Social Determinants of Health among African-American Men 1
Clare Xanthos, Henrie M Treadwell, and Kisha B Holden

Part One Social Determinants of Health Status 19

2 Implications of Racism for African-American Men’s Cancer Risk, Morbidity, and Mortality 21
Derek M Griffith and Jonetta L Johnson

3 Social Determinants of Depression and the Black Male Experience  39
Daphne C Watkins and Harold W Neighbors

4 Psychosocial Health of Black Sexually Marginalized Men  63
Louis F Graham

5 Parental Incarceration as a Social Determinant of Male African-American Adolescents’ Mental Health 83
Susan D Phillips and Qiana R Cryer-Coupet

6 The Impact of Reentry from Incarceration on the Health of African-American Men  97
Jean J Bonhomme and Elisabeth Kingsbury

7 Life-Course Socioeconomic Position and Hypertension in African-American Men: The Pitt County Study  115
Sherman A James, John Van Hoewyk, Robert F Belli, David S Strogatz, David R Williams, and Trevillore E Raghunathan

Part Two Social Determinants of Health Behavior 133

8 Social Determinants of Medical Mistrust among African-American Men 135
Wizdom Powell Hammond and Arjumand A Siddiqi

9 Beyond Gay, Bisexual, or DL: Structural Determinants of HIV Sexual Risk among Black Men in the United States  161
David J Malebranche and Lisa Bowleg

10 Social Determinants of Substance Abuse among Older African-American Men 183
Robert Pope

Part Three Social Determinants of Health Care 205

11 Prejudiced Providers: Unequal Treatment as a Determinant of African-American Men’s Health  207
Clare Xanthos

12 The Impact of the Correctional Health Care System on HIV/AIDS and the Health of African-American Men  225
Rhonda Conerly Holliday

Part Four Addressing Social Determinants of Health Inequities 245

13 Building Communities of Opportunity: Pathways to Health for African-American Men 247
Angela Glover Blackwell

14 One City’s Attempt at Treating the Effects of Social Inequities in African-American Men: Lessons Learned  265
Elizabeth M Whitley and Jodi Drisko

15 The Impact of Invisibility: The Way Forward 283
Henrie M Treadwell

16 Criminal Justice and Other Public Policies as Determinants of Health and Well-Being for African-American Men 301
Leda M Perez

17 Social Determinants of Health and Black Men: The Culture of Empowerment and the Policy Process  319
Adewale Troutman and Nandi Marshall

Afterword 335
David Satcher

Index 339