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Introduction: What Do We Know About Global Efforts to Promote Health Among Adolescent Boys and Young Men of Colour?

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Health Promotion with Adolescent Boys and Young Men of Colour

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This chapter aims to introduce the complex social landscapes and structural intersections for adolescent boys and young men of colour (BYMOC). The authors of the subsequent chapters in this book draw examples from contemporary research and practice contexts to explore the facets involved in creating, adopting, and evaluating innovative and strengths-based approaches to promote health among BYMOC. Highlighting strengths-based narratives about BYMOC is a fundamental health promotion strategy to reduce the health inequities they often experience. Therefore, we were intentional in curating a broad range of examples from research findings and promising practices from around the world, including Australia, the United States, New Zealand, and Canada, to celebrate and highlight health promotion strategies that can help to improve the life trajectories of BYMOC. Our efforts help move the scholarship on programming for BYMOC beyond discussing the health and social inequities experienced by this subgroup of males, instead focusing on practical actions that can be taken to address them and achieve men’s health equity.

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  3. School of Social Work, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Daphne C. Watkins

  4. Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Health, and Center for Men’s Health Equity, Racial Justice Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA

    Derek M. Griffith

  5. Freemason’s Centre for Male Health and Wellbeing – Northern Territory, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT, Australia

    Daile L. Rung

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Smith, J.A., Watkins, D.C., Griffith, D.M., Rung, D.L. (2023). Introduction: What Do We Know About Global Efforts to Promote Health Among Adolescent Boys and Young Men of Colour?. In: Smith, J.A., Watkins, D.C., Griffith, D.M. (eds) Health Promotion with Adolescent Boys and Young Men of Colour. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22174-3_1

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