Men 4 Health
Principle Investigator: Derek Griffith, PhD
Description:
The goal of Men 4 Health is to address barriers to healthy eating and physical activity for urban African American men, who experience a disproportionate burden of cancers and other diseases. The goals of the research are to:
1) Assess how urban African American men and their families perceive factors that influence their dietary quality and physical activity;
2) Develop a model that describes how social, cultural, historical and structural factors influence health promotion and cancer risk for urban African American men;
3) Develop a multi-level intervention to improve African American men’s rates of physical activity and consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables; and
4) Evaluate the effectiveness this intervention.