Psychosocial Influences of African Americans Men’s Health

Black men exhibit the highest mortality rate and the worse health profile compared to other racial/ethnic groups of men (Kochanek, Murphy, Xu, & Tejada-Vera, 2016; Thorpe, Duru, & Hill, 2015; Thorpe, Richard, Bowie, LaVeist, & Gaskin, 2013). The health and well-being of Black men is produced from an extremely intertwined set of relationships between individual, behavioral, social, and structural factors that have been endured across the life course (Thorpe, Duru, & Hill, 2015). While several factors have been shown to account for Black–White differences, including health care access (Williams, 2003), poverty and socioeconomic conditions (Williams, 2015), and health behaviors (Thorpe, Wilson-Frederick, et al., 2013). Psychosocial factors are key determinants of Black men's health and health behaviors (Xanthos, Treadwell, & Holden, 2010), yet there is a paucity of research focused on the impact of psychosocial factors on Black men's health and well-being (Hammond, Matthews, & Corbie-Smith, 2010; Williams, 2015). An understanding of psychosocial factors is critical to adding the growing body of evidence and perhaps paving the way for intervening to extend healthy life span in this understudied population.

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