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May 2003, Vol 93, No. 5 | American Journal of Public Health 732-741
© 2003 American Public Health Association

PUBLIC HEALTH MATTERS

Challenges to Masculine Transformation Among Urban Low-Income African American Males

Robert E. Aronson, DrPH, MPH, Tony L. Whitehead, PhD, MSHyg and Willie L. Baber, PhD

Robert E. Aronson is with the Department of Public Heath Education, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Tony L. Whitehead is with the Department of Anthropology, University of Maryland, College Park. Willie L. Baber is with the Departments of Anthropology and of Public Health Education, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Robert E. Aronson, DrPH, MPH, Department of Public Health Education, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, PO Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170. (e-mail: rearonso{at}uncg.edu).

In this article we describe and analyze the challenges faced by an intervention program that addresses the fatherhood needs of low-income urban African American males.

We used life history as the primary research strategy for a qualitative evaluation of a program we refer to as the Healthy Men in Healthy Families Program to better understand the circumstances and trajectory of men’s lives, including how involvement in the program might have benefited them in the pursuit of their fatherhood goals.

A model of masculine transformation, developed by Whitehead, was used to interpret changes in manhood/fatherhood attitudes and behaviors that might be associated with the intervention. We combined Whitehead’s model with a social ecology framework to further interpret challenges at intrapersonal, interpersonal, community, and broader societal levels.




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