How scholarly nursing literature addresses health disparities for racial/ethnic minority men.
The purpose of this article is to review conceptual/theoretical and review/agenda setting nursing literature on the health care of racial/ethnic minority men [specifically African American/Black, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian/Alaskan Native and Asian/Pacific Islander men] in one of the four targeted areas of health disparities. CINAHL and MEDLINE computer databases were searched from 1983 to the present using a combination of manual and computer-based methods to identify the nursing literature that included any racial/ethnic men in the sample and addressed at least one of the four areas of health disparities targeted by Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) that affect adults: heart disease, malignant neoplasms (cancer), diabetes mellitus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/AIDS. This review provides an overview of health disparities experienced by racial/ethnic minority men in the targeted areas and of the types of conceptual and agenda-setting articles published in scholarly nursing literature in those targeted areas.
Dallas
Constance
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University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Maternal-Child Nursing, Chicago, USA. dallascm@uic.edu
D001741:Black or African American / Q000208:ethnology; D001213:Asian / Q000208:ethnology; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000208:ethnology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000208:ethnology; D006304:Health Status; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000208:ethnology; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000458:organization & administration; D009742:Nursing Theory; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology