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When I was 14 years old, I watched my father pass away from stomach cancer at the age of 39. That began a series of losses of male relatives and friends at relatively young ages – 20s through 50s – that have left me almost obsessed with the idea of men’s health and men’s mortality, especially African American men. That’s because of the tragic loss of brothers who were making and poised to make significant contributions to their families and communities - voids that in some cases could have been prevented. That led me to issue a strong message to all men, but especially African American men, in observance of Men’s Health Month.

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In recent decades, men have shown poorer health outcomes across all racial and ethnic groups as well as socioeconomic status, according to the Men’s Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association.  But this is particularly true for African American men. Educating men and boys, their families, and health care providers about the importance of early detection of male health issues - including cardiovascular, mental, prostate heath, and cancer (lung, prostate, skin, colorectal, testicular, and more), HIV/AIDS, osteoporosis - can result in reducing rates of mortality for male-specific diseases, as well as improve the health of America’s men and its overall economic well-being. The premature death and disability of men and boys is a serious and expanding public health issue

June is Men’s Health Month, and on the current edition of Insight, Bhakti Larry Hough interviews Dr. William Hughes, a semi-retired urologist living in the Conway area of South Carolina, about the status of men’s health in general, and African American men's health, in particular.

Insight airs Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 a.m., 7 p.m. and midnight.

 

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