Black and African American Health

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Summary

Every racial or ethnic group has specific health concerns. Differences in the health of groups can result from:

• Genetics
• Environmental factors
• Access to care
• Cultural factors

On this page, you'll find links to health issues that affect Black and African Americans.

Start Here

• On the Move to Better Heart Health for African Americans (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - PDF

Related Issues

• African-American Hair: Tips for Everyday Care (American Academy of Dermatology)
• Skin Cancer in People with Darker Skin (National Cancer Institute) - PDF Also in Spanish
• Surprising Truth about Prediabetes (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Also in Spanish
• Tips from Former Smokers: African Americans (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Also in Spanish

Specifics

• A1C Test and Race/Ethnicity (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
• African Americans and Glaucoma (Glaucoma Research Foundation)
• Black People, Heart Disease and Stroke (American Heart Association)
• High Blood Pressure among Black People (American Heart Association)
• How MS Affects the Black Community (National Multiple Sclerosis Society) - PDF
• Impact of HIV on Black People in the United States (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Sickle Cell Anemia: MedlinePlus Health Topic (National Library of Medicine) Also in Spanish

Statistics and Research

• African American People and Commercial Tobacco: Health Disparities and Ways to Advance Health Equity (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Asthma and African Americans (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health)
• Cancer and African Americans (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health)
• Chronic Liver Disease and African Americans (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health)
• FastStats: Health of Black or African American non-Hispanic Population (National Center for Health Statistics)
• Heart Disease and African Americans (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health)
• Infant Mortality and African Americans (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health)
• Mental and Behavioral Health - Black/African Americans (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health)
• Obesity and African Americans (Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health)
• Setting Goals to Be More Active Slows Memory Decline in Older African Americans (National Institute on Aging)
• Tuberculosis and Black or African American Persons (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Also in Spanish

Clinical Trials

• ClinicalTrials.gov: Black and African Americans (National Institutes of Health)

Journal Articles References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

• Article: "The System isn't Set up for Us": Stories of young Black...
• Article: Participant and group facilitator perspectives on a novel culturally tailored diabetes...
• Article: The role of Southern context in shaping life course exposures linked...
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Find an Expert

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Also in Spanish
• Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health
• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Women

• It's Only Natural: Mother's Love, Mother's Milk (Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women's Health) Also in Spanish
• The Heart Truth for African American Women: Take Action to Protect Your Heart (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - PDF
• The Truth About African American Women and Heart Disease (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute) - PDF