Family-Centered Health Promotion Minority Group Selected and Rationale

Running head: FAMILY-CENTERED HEALTH PROMOTION
FAMILY-CENTERED HEALTH PROMOTION
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Family-Centered Health Promotion
Minority group chosen and rationale
The minority group that has been chosen for this assignment are the Black African
American. The African Americans are the second largest population in American after the
Hispanic population.
The mortality rate in the African American has been found to be higher than that of the
whites for cardiovascular diseases, cancer, stroke, asthma, pneumonia and influenza. About
37.5% of men aged 20 and over and 56.1% of women aged over 20 are obese (CDC, 2018). 20
% of the male and 12.8 % of black women smoke cigarettes. 40.5 % of male and 44% female
among the Black African suffered from hypertension. 12.1 % of African Americans are without
any health insurance cover (CDC, 2018). The African American adults are 60 % more
susceptible to chronic diseases like diabetes than the non-Hispanic white adults (US Department
of Health and Human Services, Office of minority health, 2016).
The study of the racial variation is normally driven by genetic model that determines
health. Certain genetic mutations makes black people more susceptible to the certain diseases.
Furthermore, the food habits and life style is guided by culture and traditions that be some
predisposing factors behind some diseases.
Health Disparities and Nutritional Challenges for Minority Group
Health disparities between the African American and the blacks and the whites are deep.

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The African American are 20 % more likely to die from asthma than the non-Hispanic whites.
The death rate of the African American children is 10 times more than the white Americans.
Africa American men were 1.9 times as susceptible to have new cancer cases as the Hispanics.
Again African American women are more susceptible to breast cancer as compared to the white
women (Griffith et al., 2011). The African American had been facing disparities in health since
time immemorial, since the time when they were brought as slaves and there had always been a
residual racial gaps in the health that lies in the nature of socio-economic control. Another reason
behind the racial gap in health is due to the chronic stress caused by the experiences of the racial
discrimination in comparison to the white Americans (Shepherd et al., 2018). This elevated level
of stress is related to a number for health problems. Black African American with socio-
economic status are likely to face from nutritional; deficiencies. It has been found that about 30
percent of the deaths in cancer in United States has been attributed to diet (Shepherd et al.,
2018). It can be estimated that dietary changes among the African Americans is crucial to reduce
the risk of heart attacks, strokes and diabetes.
Barriers to Health for Minority Group
Culture can act as a barrier to health care access and it is widely recognised that culture
can design the food intake and physical activities among a particular racial groups. This is
because various cultures represents various sets of values, social rules, ethnicities and the ways
of doing things. African Americans can be concurrently exposed to discrepant cultural lifestyle
related norms that affect the food intake, body size image and rate of physical activities, which
might contribute to poor health (Swierad, Vartanian & King, 2017).