Resumen de Health Disparities in Boys and Men.

Garth Graham, J. Nadine Gracia

• The article presents an overview of challenges that African American men and boys face in disease incidence and in accessing suitable health care. A discussion of statistics which focus on the rates of several diseases which are found among African American men and boys, and of increased incidences of violence which African American boys and men are subject to, is presented. The positive role that the health care reform legislation may play in helping African American boys and men gain access to health care services is discussed. The U.S. Office of Minority Health's Commission on the Impact of Trauma and Violence on the Health of African American Men is mentioned.