Health Promotion in Minorities

Health Promotion in Minorities
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Health Promotion in Minorities
African Americans are the second-largest minority group in the United States with outstanding religious, social, and ethnic characteristics. The minority group comprises descendants of enslaved individuals who moved from their African lands to work in the New World. African Americans experience high rates of health disparities due to decreased quality of life, lower economic opportunities, and lack of access to healthcare information. The minority groups experience various forms of inequalities that affect their overall wellbeing and health in disproportionate ways. For instance, African Americans have uneven healthcare services, poor health outcomes, and lack of access to health insurance coverage. For that reason, they have a lower life expectancy and experience higher morbidity rates than the whites across the United States.
Description of African Americans and their current Health Status
African Americans encounter significant challenges related to disparities in chronic health conditions, high mortality rates, and disparities in chronic health conditions. The disparities result from inequality in the housing system, economic deprivation, and the healthcare system. Besides, the minority group faces environmental degradation, segregation, and economic deprivation, which affects their overall wellbeing and health levels. According to Bell et al. (2020), racial and ethnic disparities have become prominent issues regarding access to healthcare services. In most instances, African Americans face disproportionate access to healthcare services based on their racial background, unlike the whites. Despite the government's efforts in improving healthcare coverage, African Americans have continued to encounter extensive segregation that limits their access to offered services.
Race and ethnicity have a significant influence on the health of African Americans as a minority group in the United States. Despite the advances in diagnosis and treatment across the United States, African Americans receive lower healthcare quality than whites (Bell et al., 2020). For this reason, the group encounters worse health outcomes than the majority groups. Economic deprivation is one of the contributing factors to the disproportionate access to healthcare against African Americans. Besides, the group encounters significant barriers to healthcare access, such as lack of reliable transport, lack of insurance cover, and low-quality healthcare services.
Health Disparities for African Americans and Nutritional Challenges
According to Healthy People 2020, African Americans experience extensive social and economic disadvantages that result in their disproportionate access to healthcare services (Robbins et al., 2018). For that reason, they encounter higher morbidity and mortality rates across a wide range of health conditions, such as heart illnesses, asthma, hypertension, obesity, and diabetes (Narayan, 2019). Equally, African Americans are likely to undergo surgery and other forms of operations in low-standard hospitals. As a result, they are likely to encounter higher mortality rates than the whites in similar neighborhoods. Similarly, A...