A collection of important essays on the health and well-being of
African Americans in the southern United States. For African
Americans in the southern United States, the social determinants of
health are influenced by a unique history that encompasses hundreds
of years of slavery, injustices during the Jim Crow era, the Great
Migration, the civil rights era, and contemporary experiences like
the Black Lives Matter movement. In Black Health in the South,
editors Steven S. Coughlin, Lovoria B. Williams, and Tabia Henry
Akintobi bring together essays on this important subject from top
public health experts. Black activists, physicians, and communities
continue to battle inequities and structural problems that include
poverty, inadequate access to health care, incarceration, a lack of
transportation, and food insecurity. As the result of redlining and
other historical and contemporary injustices, African Americans are
less likely to own a home or to have equity, which places them in
danger of financial ruin if they experience an illness such as a
heart attack, stroke, or cancer, for which they are often at
greater risk due to many social and environmental factors. At the
same time, African American communities display many strengths and
are often very resilient against these structural inequities. The
use of community coalitions is a valuable approach for addressing
health disparities in African American communities, and improving
the cultural competence of health care providers further reduces
the effects of health disparities. With essays spanning topics from
culturally appropriate health care to faith-based interventions and
the role of research networks in addressing disparities, this
collection is pivotal for understanding the health of African
Americans in the South. Public health scholars have examined racial
disparities in health in the United States broadly and in specific
cities, but this is the first edited collection to focus on African
Americans in the South both as a whole and as a distinct
population.
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