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Health Status for Black Americans

Most of black American originated from the enslaved population from their homeland

African continent forcefully to serve the other countries masters. They are the largest group of

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minority in the united states. Their sense of right was crippled and lost the power to participate in

the socio-economic and political progressions. Despite all these, they have made massive

contributions to the historical and cultural aspects of the America.

The current health status of the b lack American has improved the mortality rate of the

black Americans has decreased by great proportions. They are now living a lengthy life with

their death decreased by 25 percent for the past seventeen years for people with more than 64

years. Although there is such a breaking improvement, a fresh research indicates that the Black

Americans are enduring various conditions that are found in the white Americans on their Late

ages. There exists a distinguishable variation in the health of the Black American and the white

Americans which are caused by social and economic circumstances existing between the whites

and African Americans. The variations indicate that black Americans displays the conditions that

affect the whites at young age that when not appropriately taken care of may lead to death (Jon-

Ubabuco et al. 2019). Americans have the right to gain equal chances to get a healthy living at

most of the Black Americans have the tendency of not pursuing the medical right due to the cost

of the service. The group have some people who have medical covers that facilitate them during

the times of sickness. They are mostly disadvantaged by the demography in the nation in terms

of economy and social positions of the minority of the group.

The factors that have an impact in the health conditions of the race are majorly social

factors. The social implications of the racial sense are very much dominating in the process of

ensuring the equality of health the nation between the Black American and the whites Americans

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in the country. The attempting efforts in addressing the different perceived challenges cannot be

divorced from their dominating victimization of race. The reforms in the health sector has made

it possible for majority of Black Americans to have a positive support from the government. The

establishment of Affordable Care Act facilitated the acquisition of cheap medical covers to all

Americans including the Black population in the country. More than 2.5 million of Black

Americans were privileged to this service and reduced the number of those uninsured to a

commendable level (Jon-Ubabuco et al. 2019). Despite this improvement, the percentage of

those uninsured to that of the whites were still the highest. The accessibility to the Affordable

Care was still an illusion to majority of African Americans due to the high cost of the health

covers in the country. The high costs of health insurance have kept the numbers of uninsured at

the steeping increase especially for this set of population in the United States.

The United states has built a platform for racial disparities for many years in terms of the

system of medical covers, the existence of chronical conditions, mental and mortality health of

individuals in the minority of the groups. The Black American population have been

experiencing several disparities related to their ability to achieve the health care, the chronic

health conditions and much more of the same (Powell, et al. 2016). There are persistent rates of

chronic disease conditions affecting the black American community at deeper proportion than

that of the white population. Untimely death rates are high to this group of minority is leading in

the United states than the white population of the United states. They experience injuries and

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various types of disability with higher mortality rates in these conditions than that of the whited

population of the Unites States. The top aspects that lead in the cause of death in this group of

minority include the HIV virus, septicemia and the homicide cases. The total number of Black

Americans who succumbed to death due to HIV was around 110,000 and for homicide in the

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same manner. research indicates that more African American women die due to cancer infection

than the white women in the country.

Several barriers to the ability to acquire and access services in health have been

pinpointed which include the inability to support individual pay to medical services, the inability

to comprehend the treatment procedures, lack of timely transportation means, cultural grounds of

the Black community and educational standards. The socioeconomic barrier has been a rising

factor that involve hinder the accessibility of health services in the country. The level of

education is another barrier for health in this group (Garcia et al. 2015). This involve the

individual level of understanding and practicing the prescription of accessed medication. the

sociopolitical factor is another undermining factor in health for African Americans. They have

limited political support to fight for their health standards in the country.

One of the health promotion activities assimilated and is being practiced by this minority

group is a physical activity. This have been the center-point for disease control prevention in this

population group. The level of health promotion prevention that the Black Americans falls under

is the primary level. The group of population depends mostly on the vaccination programs while

still young and only a few participate in cancer screening programs. This lead to high death rates

for African Americans who die from Cancer each year. This primary level of promotion

prevention would be effective in the process of curbing health issues for this minority group in

the United States. This level of health promotion prevention will be effective due to the

dominating behavior of the members of this group focusing on the initial stages of preventing the

disease through vaccination. The later level (tertiary level) may be unavailable or unaffordable

for the African Americans to participate into making it hard to be effective.

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When creating a care plan for African Americans, various beliefs must be kept in mind.

Some of this beliefs include the cultural belief, the practice of home based herbs, the literacy in

health issues and racial influence on the minority group. The cultural competent theory that

supports this minority group is the United States. The model of cultural competent will need the

health practitioner to be competent in cultural view emulating the ideas of cultural desires,

awareness, knowledge, skills and encounters in the process of treating the patient. The cultural

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References

Norris, K. C., Williams, S. F., Rhee, C. M., Nicholas, S. B., Kovesdy, C. P., Kalantar‐Zadeh, K.,

& Ebony Boulware, L. (2017, May). Hemodialysis disparities in African Americans: The

deeply integrated concept of race in the social fabric of our society. In Seminars in

dialysis (Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 213-223).

Garcia, J. A., Sanchez, G. R., Sanchez-Youngman, S., Vargas, E. D., & Ybarra, V. D. (2015).

Race as lived experience: the impact of multi-dimensional measures of race/ethnicity on

the self-reported health status of Latinos. Du Bois review: social science research on race,

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Powell, W., Adams, L. B., Cole-Lewis, Y., Agyemang, A., & Upton, R. D. (2016). Masculinity

and race-related factors as barriers to health help-seeking among African American men.

Behavioral Medicine, 42(3), 150-163.

Jon-Ubabuco, N., & Dimmitt Champion, J. (2019). Perceived mental healthcare barriers and

health-seeking behavior of African-American caregivers of adolescents with mental

health disorders. Issues in mental health nursing, 40(7), 585-592.

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desires will be the motivating factors for health practitioners to engage themselves to establish a

culturally competence while cultural awareness will reexamine themselves to counter personal

prejudices (Norris et al. 2017). The process of cultural knowledge will enable the health

practitioners to acquire relevant information on the life of African American patient while

cultural skills will be essential in the process of merging several information related to the

minority group. The cultural encounter is the final stage of the model that enable a health

practitioner to engage in a face to face interactions with the members of the Black American

community. This sort of competence model is effective since it focusses on understanding a

Black American as a patient and improving the process of health care delivery services to the

minority.