Social environment, Physical environment and life expectancy of Black women

Moffett, Nurah-Talbahnyasha N.

2010-2019

This paper examines the role of the social environment and physical environment, specifically injustices within the environment as possible intervening variables influencing disparities in health and life expectancy of African-American women. Per the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in 2014, Black women in the United States (USA) had a life expectancy three years lower than the national average life expectancy for women overall and endured the lowest average life expectancy compared to other races of women (CDC, 2016a). The researcher references the Afrocentric Perspective, identifies Critical Race Theory as a conceptual framework, and proposes causal factors as biopsychosocial and epigenetic theories (Ford & Airhihenbuwa, 2010). This paper seeks to introduce theories as factors that should be considered in research when asking the question: What causes the difference (health disparity) between Black women's life expectancy in the USA and the overall life expectancy for all women in the USA

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Whitney M. Young Jr. School of Social Work Conceptual Papers

May 2017

Master of Social Work (MSW)

Clark Atlanta University

School of Social Work

Green, Charcella

Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
Clark Atlanta University

2017-05-01

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.sswcp:2017_moffett_nurah_talibah_n

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