Physical Health
Men's Health Awareness is held in the month of...
What is November?
TRUE OR FALSE: Black students are more likely than white students to have access to college-ready courses.
What is FALSE. Black students are LESS likely than white students to have access to college-ready courses
TRUE OR FALSE: There is a phone number you can call to get help when having suicidal thoughts
What is TRUE? You can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 or call 911 for help.
Name the 3 most commonly used drugs
What are alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana.
TRUE OR FALSE: homelessness has increased for the 3rd year in a row since 2018
What is TRUE?
Amount of suggested doctor's visits for normal check-ups between ages 4-21
What is once a year?
This increases the chances of getting good grades and becoming successful
What is school attendance?
Suicide is the ____ leading cause of death in Black men aged 15-24 years old
What is 3rd
Name one risk factor that excessive alcohol use can increase in a person
What is stroke, liver cirrhosis, alcoholic hepatitis, cancer, stomach bleeding, depression, and other serious health conditions
Estimate number of people homeless in Philadelphia
What is about 5700? Philadelphia has the lowest number of street homeless per capita of any of the largest cities in the US.
Two factors to preventing heart disease
What is healthy eating and physical activity?
A process through which students are pushed out of schools and into prisons is called...
What is School to Prison Pipeline?
#1 stigma that leads men of color to not want to receive help for their mental illness
What is sign of weakness?
TRUE OR FALSE: The rate of illicit drug use among Black people is slightly higher than the national average
What is True.
12.4% (Black people) vs 10.2%
Name the majority gender (male/female) to experience homelessness
What is male?
Common health problems in the Black community
What are heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and obesity?
TRUE OR FALSE: Graduation rates have been increasing for the past 3 years in the School District of Philadelphia.
What is TRUE? Graduation rates in the School District of Philadelphia is currently 79%
TRUE OR FALSE: Black people with mental health illnesses, particularly schizophrenia and bipolar disorders, are more likely to be incarcerated than people of other races?
What is True
________ is the most used drug by Black people, with the rates increasing since 2015.
What is Marijuana. The overall percentage of the US population that uses Marijuana (aged 12 and up) is 15.9%, whereas Black people's percentage is 17.8% or 17.9 million.
In 2019, an estimated 568,000 Americans experienced homelessness, with Black people making up about ____%
What is 40%. Most minority groups, especially Black people and Indigenous people, experience homelessness at higher rates than Whites, largely due to long-standing historical and structural racism.
TRUE OR FALSE: Black men are 30% more likely to die from heart disease than White males.
What is TRUE?
This law was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.
What is Brown V. Board of Education?
Compared with Whites, Black people are _____ likely to receive consistent mental health care
What is less? Black people are more likely to use emergency rooms or primary care offices (rather than mental health specialists); they receive poorer quality care; and lack access to culturally competent care
In 2018, Black, White or Hispanic people accounted for 1.2 million Americans that abuse/misuse prescription pain-reliever pills and/or Opiates.
What is Black people. Out of 1.1 million: 505,000 were Rx Hydrocodone, 378,000 were Rx Oxycodone, and 18,000 were Rx Fentanyl. The remaining, 135,000 were Heroin users.
The top 5 causes of Homelessness
What are: 1. lack of affordable housing; 2. unemployment; 3. poverty; 4. mental illness and the lack of needed services; 5. drug abuse and the lack of needed services