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Article: Educating African American men about prostate cancer: the barbershop program.
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- American Journal of Health Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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Abstract: African American men have the world's highest rates of prostate cancer, with more than twice the mortality of Caucasian Americans. Traditional risk-reduction messages about this disease have not proved effective with African Americans, so two nurse educators forged a university-community coalition in upstate New York to address this public health problem. Working with local health professionals and other interested stakeholders, they developed a culturally competent prostate cancer education program utilizing a non-traditional setting--barbershops--to reach and engage black men. After recruiting six minority barbershop owners in Syracuse, the nurses provided a ...