Social Determinants of Health Among African-American Men

Henrie Treadwell, PhD, is Senior Social Scientist and Associate Director of Development in the National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine. Previouslyy, Dr. Treadwell was program director at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Dr. Treadwell is a member of the editorial board for the American Journal of Public Health and the International Journal of Men's Health and Gender. Clare M. Xanthos, PhD, is a Senior Researcher at Community Voices of Morehouse School of Medicine. She has lived and worked in several countries including the USA, Barbados, the U.K., and Nigeria. Before joining Community Voices, she was an independent consultant in the U.K., and??prior to this, Dr. Xanthos was a Research Fellow for the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies. Kisha B. Holden, PhD, is associate director for Community Voices and assistant professor of clinical psychiatry and mental health policy analyst at the National Center for Primary Care at Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Braithwaite is co-owner of Evaluation Research Associates, Inc.

• Figures and Tables vForeword viiRobert M FranklinPreface ixAcknowledgments xiiiThe Editors xvThe Contributors xvii1 Introduction to Social Determinants of Health among African-American Men 1Clare Xanthos, Henrie M Treadwell, and Kisha B HoldenPart One Social Determinants of Health Status 192 Implications of Racism for African-American Men’s Cancer Risk, Morbidity, and Mortality 21Derek M Griffith and Jonetta L Johnson3 Social Determinants of Depression and the Black Male Experience  39Daphne C Watkins and Harold W Neighbors4 Psychosocial Health of Black Sexually Marginalized Men  63Louis F Graham5 Parental Incarceration as a Social Determinant of Male African-American Adolescents’ Mental Health 83Susan D Phillips and Qiana R Cryer-Coupet6 The Impact of Reentry from Incarceration on the Health of African-American Men  97Jean J Bonhomme and Elisabeth Kingsbury7 Life-Course Socioeconomic Position and Hypertension in African-American Men: The Pitt County Study  115Sherman A James, John Van Hoewyk, Robert F Belli, David S Strogatz, David R Williams, and Trevillore E RaghunathanPart Two Social Determinants of Health Behavior 1338 Social Determinants of Medical Mistrust among African-American Men 135Wizdom Powell Hammond and Arjumand A Siddiqi9 Beyond Gay, Bisexual, or DL: Structural Determinants of HIV Sexual Risk among Black Men in the United States  161David J Malebranche and Lisa Bowleg10 Social Determinants of Substance Abuse among Older African-American Men 183Robert PopePart Three Social Determinants of Health Care 20511 Prejudiced Providers: Unequal Treatment as a Determinant of African-American Men’s Health  207Clare Xanthos12 The Impact of the Correctional Health Care System on HIV/AIDS and the Health of African-American Men  225Rhonda Conerly HollidayPart Four Addressing Social Determinants of Health Inequities 24513 Building Communities of Opportunity: Pathways to Health for African-American Men 247Angela Glover Blackwell14 One City’s Attempt at Treating the Effects of Social Inequities in African-American Men: Lessons Learned  265Elizabeth M Whitley and Jodi Drisko15 The Impact of Invisibility: The Way Forward 283Henrie M Treadwell16 Criminal Justice and Other Public Policies as Determinants of Health and Well-Being for African-American Men 301Leda M Perez17 Social Determinants of Health and Black Men: The Culture of Empowerment and the Policy Process  319Adewale Troutman and Nandi MarshallAfterword 335David SatcherIndex 339