Health Disparities
Native Americans and African Americans in particular die from prostate cancer more than any other group in North Carolina. But African-American women too, struggle with high rates of breast cancer. Host Anita Brown-Graham first looks at a unique partnership of local barbers in Edgecombe County working to increase prostate cancer awareness.
Digital Extra 1: Edgecombe County barbers spread Prostate Cancer awareness
Digital Extra 2:More African-American women are fighting breast cancer
ncIMPACT looks at how 42 percent more African-American women die from breast cancer than white women.
Overcoming Health Disparities: For More Information
- The Challenge – What is the problem communities are facing?
- North Carolina Institute of Medicine—Racial Differences in Prostate Cancer (page 130-135)
- CDC report details health disparities between rural minorities
- The Solution – What is the innovative solution we want to highlight?
- Vidant Edgecombe Hospital Cancer Care 2017 Report to the Community—Edgecombe County Barbershop Partnership on Page 4
- In Focus: Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Care by Confronting Racism
- The Players – Who did what to make the innovative solution work in the community?
- Edgecombe County Barbershop Partnership – Real Men Get Checked: One community’s effort to increase prostate screening
- Vidant Edgecombe Hospital
- The Promise – Why do we think this solution holds promise for other communities?
- Health from a Trusted Source: Barbershops Bring Health Services to African American Men (Maryland)
- Barbers start mental health conversations with clients (Arkansas)
- Barbershop interventions improving health outcomes: Studies support community involvement
- A Little Healthcare with your Haircut? (Wilson, NC)
