Journal
JOURNAL OF AMERICAN COLLEGE HEALTH
Volume 48, Issue 6, Pages 247-256Publisher
HELDREF PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.1080/07448480009596266
Keywords
gender; masculinity; men; policy; sex differences
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Men's health has emerged as an important public concern that may require new kinds of healthcare interventions and increased resources. Considerable uncertainty and confusion surround prevailing understandings of men's health, particularly those generated by media debate and public policy, and health research has often operated on oversimplified assumptions about men and masculinity. A more useful way of understanding men's health is to adopt a gender-relations approach. This means examining health concerns in the context of men's and women's interactions with each other, and their positions in the larger, multidimensional structure of gender relations. Such an approach raises the issue of differences among men, which is a key issue in recent research on masculinity and an important health issue. The gender-relations approach offers new ways of addressing practical issues of healthcare for men in college environments.
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