ARTICLE CRITIQUE

Article Critique

Article Critique

This paper presents a critique of an article titled, “Exercise Capacity and Mortality in Black and White Men”. This item was released in “Exercise Physiology periodical and was in writing by a group of writers. The authors have used a mixed citation style comprising of APA and Chicago Turabian. The team of authors is fully qualified. The authors have used quantitative research methodology.

According to the authors, low levels of physical activity are a risk factor for chronic disease incidence and recurrence of a number of conditions, independent of their association with obesity. Regular exercise is least common among African Americans, followed by Hispanics and Whites. Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders also have been reported to be more sedentary in comparison to Whites. The only exception to this pattern occurs in Black males ages 18-29, among whom regular exercise is more common, compared to Whites. There is a positive relation between SEP and physical activity among most groups, with the exception of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders.

Discussion

In men, authors have found that 38 percent higher cause mortality rate and a 30% higher CVD mortality rate for African Americans as compared to NLW. While Black Americans showed greater mortality rates than NLW, Black immigrants did not. In explaining the excess risk for U.S.-born African Americans, Stern and Wei (1999) concluded that immigrants from Mexico had very low mortality despite low SES due to a “healthy migrant effect,” that is, the role of the protective factors that Mexicans bring with them. These findings point out the importance of conducting longitudinal studies for Latinos and analyzing results by birthplace/generation.

Health behaviors such as sleep, nutrition, exercise, and substance use can be highly associated with family cohesiveness, environment stressors, perceptions of health status, value of health, and definitions of taking care of one's health. Family cohesiveness has also been linked to disease management, with high levels of family cohesiveness resulting in good diet and exercise. More complete measures of culture specific protective factors that promote favorable health behaviors and reduce risk behaviors require additional attention and inquiry (Kokkinos, Myers, Kokkinos, Pittaras, Narayan, Manolis, Karasik, Greenberg, Papademetriou, Singh, 2008).

According to the authors there is a significant role of culture-specific behaviors and female kin in differences in infant outcome between African American and White mothers shows that the extended family kin network and the women's perception of the infant as important to her role in life are positively associated ...