This groundbreaking book applies the concept of social determinants of health to the health of African- American men. While there have been significant efforts in recent years to eliminate health disparities, serious disparities continue to exist especially with regard to African American men who continue to suffer disproportionately from poor health when compared to other racial, ethnic, and gender groups in the United States. This book covers the most important issues relating to social determinants of health and also offers viable strategies for reducing health disparities.

This groundbreaking book applies the concept of social determinantsof health to the health of African- American men. While therehave been significant efforts in recent years to eliminate healthdisparities, serious disparities continue to exist especially withregard to African-American men who continue to sufferdisproportionately from poor health when compared to other racialethnic, and gender groups in the United States. Thisbook covers the most important issues relating to socialdeterminants of health and also offers viable strategies forreducing health disparities.

Figures and Tables vForeword viiRobert M FranklinPreface ixAcknowledgments xiiiThe Editors xvThe Contributors xvii1 Introduction to Social Determinants of Health amongAfrican-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 CancerRisk, Morbidity, and Mortality 21Derek M Griffith and Jonetta L Johnson3 Social Determinants of Depression and the Black MaleExperience 39Daphne C Watkins and Harold W Neighbors4 Psychosocial Health of Black Sexually Marginalized Men63Louis F Graham5 Parental Incarceration as a Social Determinant of MaleAfrican-American Adolescents' Mental Health 83Susan D Phillips and Qiana R Cryer-Coupet6 The Impact of Reentry from Incarceration on the Health ofAfrican-American Men 97Jean J Bonhomme and Elisabeth Kingsbury7 Life-Course Socioeconomic Position and Hypertension inAfrican-American Men: The Pitt County Study 115Sherman A James, John Van Hoewyk, Robert F Belli, David SStrogatz, David R Williams, and Trevillore E RaghunathanPart Two Social Determinants of Health Behavior 1338 Social Determinants of Medical Mistrust among African-AmericanMen 135Wizdom Powell Hammond and Arjumand A Siddiqi9 Beyond Gay, Bisexual, or DL: Structural Determinants of HIVSexual Risk among Black Men in the United States 161David J Malebranche and Lisa Bowleg10 Social Determinants of Substance Abuse among OlderAfrican-American Men 183Robert PopePart Three Social Determinants of Health Care 20511 Prejudiced Providers: Unequal Treatment as a Determinant ofAfrican-American Men's Health 207Clare Xanthos12 The Impact of the Correctional Health Care System on HIV/AIDSand the Health of African-American Men 225Rhonda Conerly HollidayPart Four Addressing Social Determinants of Health Inequities24513 Building Communities of Opportunity: Pathways to Health forAfrican-American Men 247Angela Glover Blackwell14 One City's Attempt at Treating the Effects of SocialInequities 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 ofHealth and Well-Being for African-American Men 301Leda M Perez17 Social Determinants of Health and Black Men: The Culture ofEmpowerment and the Policy Process 319Adewale Troutman and Nandi MarshallAfterword 335David SatcherIndex 339