Partnering Medical Students With Barbers to Cut Hypertension in Black Men.

BLACK men; MEDICAL screening; HEALTH; PREVENTION; HYPERTENSION; MEN'S health; MEDICAL students; HEALTH promotion; PERSONAL beauty; BLACK people; VOLUNTEERS

The article discusses a partnership between the Student National Medical Association at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine and barbershops in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to improve the health of Black men in the community. Topics include health education, health counseling, and medical screening offered to Black men from the community at the barbershops, the high prevalence of hypertension among Black men in the U.S., and medical students' efforts to reduce health disparities.