Environmental Factors Impacting Black Women's Life Expectancy, What Educators Should Know
Location
Moody
Proposal Track
Research Project
Session Format
Presentation
Abstract
This paper examined relevant literature and identified a conceptual model based on biopsychosocial and epigenetic theoretical frameworks to review social and physical environmental factors as possible variables that should be considered in research on health disparities impacting African-American women. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that Black women and girls have poorer health statuses and shorter life expectancies than other races of women and in addition, Americans, in general, have lower than expected health and longevity averages compared to other wealthy nations and even some poorer nations (CDC, 2016a, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD], 2015b). Health disparities overwhelmingly impact marginalized communities and implications from selected theories suggest that interactions between humans and their environments are interdependent and that often communities experiencing disparities in health also may experience disparities in education (Basch,2011; Currie,2005). Researcher acknowledges that a diverse group sample of Black American women should be surveyed and interviewed, as well as focus groups from among the population should be identified based upon a pilot instrument developed around researched theories and factors explored in this paper for realizability of the conceptual framework for in-depth ethnographic interview data on the selected conceptual framework.
Keywords
psychosocial environment, physical environment, health disparity, brain development
Recommended Citation
Moffett, Nurah-Talibah N., "Environmental Factors Impacting Black Women's Life Expectancy, What Educators Should Know" (2017). Georgia Educational Research Association Conference. 20.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gera/2017/2017/20
Environmental Factors Impacting Black Women's Life Expectancy, What Educators Should Know
Moody
This paper examined relevant literature and identified a conceptual model based on biopsychosocial and epigenetic theoretical frameworks to review social and physical environmental factors as possible variables that should be considered in research on health disparities impacting African-American women. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports that Black women and girls have poorer health statuses and shorter life expectancies than other races of women and in addition, Americans, in general, have lower than expected health and longevity averages compared to other wealthy nations and even some poorer nations (CDC, 2016a, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [OECD], 2015b). Health disparities overwhelmingly impact marginalized communities and implications from selected theories suggest that interactions between humans and their environments are interdependent and that often communities experiencing disparities in health also may experience disparities in education (Basch,2011; Currie,2005). Researcher acknowledges that a diverse group sample of Black American women should be surveyed and interviewed, as well as focus groups from among the population should be identified based upon a pilot instrument developed around researched theories and factors explored in this paper for realizability of the conceptual framework for in-depth ethnographic interview data on the selected conceptual framework.
