Question

Considerations for health promotion among the African American community should include all of the following except:_______.

A. consider using churches to disseminate information
B. peer education is very successful
C. be aware of underlying mistrust of the medical system
D. use formal titles until invited to do otherwise

Answer 1

B. peer education is very successful

Step-by-step explanation:

As we know, the African American population has a historical context of exploitation and deprivation of essential services, such as medical services, for example. This reflects a lot in today's African American society, generating the need for the creation of health policies, established as a way to prioritize medical services and health information for this population.

According to research, African-American citizens tend to view the medical system with distrust and a certain amount of disbelief, especially older citizens. For this reason, it is necessary to gain the confidence of these people to treat them with respect and with easy and understandable information. For this reason, it is recommended that health professionals, within an African American community, use formal titles until they are invited to do so. the opposite by citizens.

It is also necessary to emphasize the importance of providing information about medical services in a correct manner. In this case, churches can be a great vehicle for dissemination. That's because churches have a lot of influence in African American communities and represent a reliable source of information, unlike peer education, which can contain unreal information, fake news, among others.

Answer 2

Answer: (B) Peer group is very successful.

Explanation:

Peer education refers to an approach used in health promotion, in which members of community or targeted groups are strengthened to promote health-enhancing change among their peers through teaching or sharing of valuable health information, values and behavior.

Peer education has been deployed over years in the effort to prevent illegal drug abuse (such as tobacco, alcohol and other drugs) among young people. Also, in HIV prevention, healthy eating, food safety and physical activities promotions, peer education has been massively used.

However, peer education approach should be exempted during health promotion among African American community. This is because they often have the same kind of mentality and thought about a particular subject ( such as their large distrust and disbelief about medical system, proved by many research on this community), which will make it very difficult to achieve an healthy health promotion among this group.