- Title
- Introduction: men's health in context
- Creator
- Broom, Alexander; Tovey, Philip
- Relation
- Men's Health: Body, Identity and Social Context p. 1-8
- Relation
- http://au.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470516569.html
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- Research into men's health has proliferated in recent years with a focus on the ways in which gender constructions impact on men's health outcomes and everyday lives. Men's studies is now an established area within the social sciences with increasingly sophisticated theoretical and substantive work being produced internationally. We write this book at a time of emerging public and academic awareness of the adverse impacts of cultural enactments of masculinities on men and boys. From heart disease to mental illness and binge drinking, men's health is of increasing interest and concern to health policy-makers and healthcare practitioners. Despite this, health policy, public health campaigns and the focus of community health organisations are still strongly biased towards addressing women's health issues. In part, this is understandable, given the historical subordination of women and the negative influences of patriarchal dynamics on women's health and wellbeing; however, the result of ignoring the various difficulties posed by contemporary masculinities for men is a new type of gender gap that has wide-ranging implications.
- Subject
- men's health; masculinities; prevention; gender differences
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918508
- Identifier
- uon:8629
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780470516560
- Language
- eng
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