Men’s health

Men’s health as an issue warranting specific attention has begun to attract more notice as growing evidence emerges of differential epidemiological trends between men and women, particularly with respect to men’s premature mortality from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and morbidity linked to poor health-seeking behaviors, mental health and violence, including homicide and injuries.

Factors associated with self-reporting of mental and emotional well-being in men in Chile

Objective. Determine factors associated with the mental and emotional well-being of men in Chile. Methods. Cross-sectional analytic study in men aged 15 years and older in Chile. Data from the National Survey on Quality of Life and Health 2015-2016 (ENCAVI) were used. The variables of interest were: perception of emotional and mental wellbeing, and self-reporting of depression or anxiety. The prevalence of each of these variables was estimated and logistic regression was used to evaluate their association with sociodemographic factors, habits, and health.

Accounting for physicians’ gender expectations improves men’s health medicine

The field of men’s health seeks to improve men’s health outcomes by accounting for the specific ways that gender influences male health behaviors. To meet this goal, physicians must also account for the ways that their own cultural assumptions about masculinity influence their clinical practice. Gender is not solely biological. It is a way of acting out masculinity or femininity that varies across individual and cultural contexts. Thus, doctors and patients might have different ideas about how a man should feel and act.

Prostate cancer in the Caribbean is taking down our men: access to care and changes in attitude are required

Dear Editor,

The high rate of mortality from prostate cancer in the Caribbean poses a huge public health challenge for the area.

As we know, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are a growing challenge globally, as well as in the Caribbean (1). In fact, the Caribbean has the highest burden of NCDs in the Region of the Americas (2). Among these chronic diseases, several types of cancers have occupied the top causes of death.

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