1Assistant Professor, School of Public Allied Health (SPAH) Division of Public Health & Health; Research Coordinator, Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), USA
2Assistant Professor, School of Public Allied Health (SPAH) Director Division of Public Health & Health; Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), USA
3Executive Director & Professor School of Public Allied Health & Health (SPAH) Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), USA
4Assistant Professor, School of Public Allied Health (SPAH) Director Division of Public of Kinesiology and Physical Education; Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), USA
5Associate Professor, College of Education; Special Education Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), USA
*Corresponding author:Park E Atatah, Assistant Professor, School of Public Allied Health (SPAH) Division of Public Health & Health; Research Coordinator, Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), USA
Submission: August 23, 2024;Published: September 06, 2024
ISSN: 2577-2007Volume9 Issue2
This comprehensive data driven evidence-based research study investigated, analyzed, explored, and mapped the roles “classified underlined or underlying health conditions” played in the “life expectancies” among Blacks/African Americans in the US before and during COVD-19 pandemics outbreak between 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. This study used “Social Construction of the Ideology of Reality Theory” as lens of analysis. This study selected quantitative “Non-Experimental Research Descriptive Statistics” as statistical measurements’ tool of analyzing collected secondary data as the option of methodology. This study collected secondary data from CDC in 2024 dealing with deaths among Blacks/African Americans in the US in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. The study finds and concludes that the “classified underlined or underlying health conditions” played profound “SIGNIFICANT” roles in the “life expectancies” among Blacks/African Americans in the US during COVD-19 pandemics outbreak between 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. However, this study saw some kind of “BRIGHT LIGHTS” to all Blacks/African Americans in the US the needs to become more fundamentally equivocally used to a fairer “Healthcare Delivery Systems and Procedures” in the US, which should and will bring some POSITIVE SOCIAL CHANGES to all Blacks/African Americans in the US and possibly beyond.
Keywords:COVID-19 pandemics; Underlined conditions; Underlying conditions; High Blood Pressures (HPB), Diabetics; Obesities; Deaths; Discriminations; Blacks/African Americans in the US; Life-Expectancies