性别健康平等:将男性健康纳入其中的理由
1Center for Men's Health Equity, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA; Racial Justice Institute, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA; Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Health, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA; Global Action on Men's Health, United Kingdom.
Social science & medicine (1982)
|June 2, 2024
概括
美国联邦政策忽视了男性的健康,尤其是边缘化的男性,阻碍了人口健康和公平. 解决男性健康问题需要一个跨部门的方法来实现真正的健康公平.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生政策 公共卫生政策
- 健康 公平 研究 健康 公平 研究
- 男人的健康研究研究.
背景情况:
- 目前的美国联邦政策和基础设施不足以解决男性的健康问题,特别是边缘化人口的健康问题.
- 这种监督阻碍了国家在改善整体人口健康和实现性别和更广泛的健康平等方面取得的进展.
- 现有的性别主流化方法一直专注于妇女和女孩,忽视男孩和男人.
研究的目的:
- 强调在联邦政策和基础设施中明确纳入男性健康的关键需要.
- 为了证明交叉透镜是如何理解和解决男性健康差异的必要条件.
- 倡导政策变化,促进所有性别和种族群体的健康平等.
主要方法:
- 用疾病控制和预防中心 (CDC) 的数据分析死亡率和主要死亡原因的性别差异.
- 检查综合数据如何掩盖男性子组面临的特定健康问题.
- 应用一个交叉框架,使用黑人男性的健康作为一个案例研究.
主要成果:
- 死亡率和死亡原因存在持续的性别差异,但这些模式掩盖了严重的性别健康差距,不成比例地影响了边缘化的男性.
- 分别按性别和种族呈现数据,阻碍了需要政策关注的特定男性人口的识别.
- 跨界方法对于识别和解决健康差异的复杂,结构性决定因素至关重要.
结论:
- 在联邦政策中明确考虑男性健康,建立男性健康办公室,并采用交叉镜头对于改善人口健康和公平至关重要.
- 男性的健康是实现性别和种族健康平等的组成部分.
- 为了实现全面的健康公平,需要采用交叉方法,考虑影响健康和福祉的各种因素的相互作用.
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