National Barbershop Health Institute

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National Barbershop Health Institute

Our mission is to address the historic and persistent disparity of healthcare for minority men.

Our approach is to work to decrease health disparities by improving the historically strained relationship with minority men and doctors.

06/23/2021

Men's Health Network (MHN) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to reach men, boys, and their families where they live, work, play, and pray with health awareness and disease prevention messages and tools, screening programs, educational materials, advocacy opportunities, and patient navigation.

Check out https://www.menshealthnetwork.org/ today for extra help, resources and statistics to learn more about the disparities in men's health.

06/18/2021

Today is Wear Blue Day!💙

Wear BLUE Day is a part of the year-round Wear BLUE® awareness campaign that was created by Men’s Health Network to raise awareness about the importance of male health and to encourage men to live longer and healthier lives, and give women an opportunity to encourage them to do so.

06/15/2021

Men’s health awareness can mean many different things.

It means raising awareness of making healthy lifestyle choices, making regular annual visits to the doctor, getting educated on heart disease or diabetes, starting general health conversations with their male friends, and much more.

If you are planning to 💙Wear Blue💙to show support on 6/18, the information, tools, and resources on this website can help you plan an impactful Wear BLUE event where you live, work, and play:
http://www.menshealthnetwork.org/wearblue/friday/

06/09/2021

💙 Wear BLUE Day 2021
💙 Friday, June 18th

Whether it is your friend, brother, dad, boyfriend, spouse, or boss, show them you care about them and their health by wearing blue.

Wear BLUE was created by Men’s Health Network to raise awareness about the importance of male health and to encourage men to live longer and healthier lives.
Read more about Wear BLUE here: http://www.menshealthnetwork.org/wearblue/faq/

06/01/2021

June is National Men's Health month!

Men live sicker and die younger. This month we aim to raise awareness for education about men’s need to seek regular checkups, or testicular cancer education, prostate cancer education, or other health issues that affect men. (Cardiovascular disease, skin cancer, lung cancer, diabetes, gout, and more.)

05/26/2021

June is Men’s Health Month, a national observance used to raise awareness about health care for men and focus on encouraging boys, men and their families to practice and implement healthy living decisions, such as exercising and eating healthy.

05/19/2021

In 2019, 40.6 million people in the US were non-Hispanic black alone, which represents 12.8% of the total population and the 2nd largest minority population in the US.

In 2019, 55.9% of non-Hispanic blacks in comparison to 74.7% of non-Hispanic whites used private health insurance, 43.5% relied on Medicaid or public insurance, and 10.1% were uninsured. There is a clear gap between race and health treatment/possibilities.

To learn more about statistics such as these, check out this site: https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=3&lvlid=61.

05/11/2021

We currently offer three different programs.

Barber Blood Pressure Program
Weekly, Scalable & Sustainable blood pressure testing in nationwide urban barbershops. HIPAA compliant data collection puts clients' health information in their control.

Electronic Health Records
Collected data is used to create secure mobile digital medical records to give minority men control of their health information.

Primary Care Physician Referral
Minority men in our program will have access to a minority primary care physician, which is the first step in changing health behaviors by establishing a trusted relationship with a doctor of their choice.

05/03/2021

OUR TEAM

Our team has over 30 years of established relationships in the barbershop industry, as well as experience and understanding of how to gather support and mobilize certified barbers and barbershops for a collective cause that supports the health and wellness of men of color.

Our solution team is made up of subject matter experts from a wide variety of fields that encompass all aspects of minority men’s health.

04/30/2021

OUR FOCUS

Building a solid foundation of health awareness That Saves Lives through in-shop education and testing/monitoring allows men of color to take responsibility and control of their own healthcare in partnership with a trusted, culturally accepted institutional environment - The Barbershop.

Our competitive advantage is that we are the first to develop a National, Scalable and Sustainable blood pressure program that targets Minority Men in a Historically Trusted Environment, the Urban Barbershop.

03/29/2021

ABOUT US

Our mission is to address the historic and persistent disparity of healthcare for minority men, specifically as it relates to the early detection and treatment options for hypertension and high blood pressure, which disproportionally affects minority men.

Our approach is to work to decrease health disparities by improving the historically strained relationship with minority men and doctors by ensuring that cultural competence is addressed among the medical professionals we partner with.

Our plan is to close the communication and healthcare disparity gap via the roll-out of our primary care minority primary care physician referral program, creation of electronic health records and in-shop blood pressure testing/monitoring program, We also have a data subscription program to provide needed micro target demographic data to inform and improve treatment options for health issues common to minority men.

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Minneapolis, MN

Telephone

+19522204922

Website

https://nbhi.org/

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