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Health promotion and black elders — subgroups of greatest need
Author(s)	Joseph Dancy, Penny A Ralston
Journal title	Research on Aging, vol 24, no 2, March 2002
Pages	pp 218-242
Keywords	Black people ; Health [elderly] ; Preventative medicine ; Social surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Three sub-groups of African American elders at risk in terms of their health are profiled. Major barriers to optimum health for older rural Blacks are a lack of confidence in the formal health care system, greater rates of poverty than urban elders, geographic isolation, and lack of access to health care and social support. For older Black women, barriers include attitudes that affect an overestimation of health, health pessimism, a lack of confidence in the health care system, lower economic resources, and major family responsibilities that affect the availability of money for, and time to seek, health care. For older-aged Blacks (age 75+), barriers are lack of confidence in the formal healthcare system, dependence on informal support for health care, and an underuse of formal supports, and lower socioeconomic levels. Thus, health promotion will increasingly be needed for American Black elders. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020416246 A
Classmark	TKE: CC: LK2: 3F: 7T
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