Brite Divinity School of Texas Christian Social Science Literature Review

The topic is holistic treatment specifically of African American students in student health centers. Focus is on physical wellness, not mental wellness, though we can touch on mental health a little.

So, a review of holistic treatment, how it’s applied, benefits, how it impacts people, how it’s been used among student centers. Finally, we can describe the negative history between the medical and African American community (rooted in incidents like the Tuskegee Experiment). (21 peer reviewed sources between 2017-2021)

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

COVID-19 and systemic causes of suboptimal black health confirm thatAfrican Americans has the highest rate of health disparities in the USA,manifested from a somber legacy of years of racial and social injustice and aformidable challenge to equitable health care for all (Kullar, Marcelin,Swartz, Piggott, Macias, Mathew, & Tan, 2020). . Blacks and African-Americans face systematic barriers that impact their naturalistic gift of balancing theiracademic, physical, emotional, and family spiritual, mental well-being, and personalstability due to the 2020 Global Crisis and COVID-19 pandemic. Students at Historically Black colleges and Universitiesneed access to Holistic and African -Centered support from on-campus studenthealth centers.