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      Homens e saúde na pauta da Saúde Coletiva Translated title: Men and health as targets of the Public Health

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          Apresenta-se a temática "homens e saúde" como questão contemporânea da Saúde Coletiva e produto da interface entre as ciências humanas e a saúde: o caráter social do adoecimento; a perspectiva de gênero como forma particular da relação saúde-sociedade; e a promoção da saúde como conceituação positiva Elabora-se a temática em torno de três eixos de aproximação, sob a perspectiva dos exercícios das masculinidades: saúde sexual e reprodutiva; violência e gênero e morbi-mortalidade em homens. São apontadas as contribuições que estes eixos produzem como esforço empírico para realizar a categoria gênero, ao tempo em que revelam novas problemáticas para a área de saúde: a paternidade, o exercício interativo da sexualidade, a violência interpessoal no âmbito da vida privada, a hiper-masculinidade na violência entre homens, o cuidado de si e o cuidar em saúde para os homens. Estas contribuições permitirão não apenas inserir as masculinidades como questão de saúde, mas renovar as formas de tratamento de homens e mulheres no campo da saúde.

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          It shows the thematic "men and health" as a contemporary matter of the Public Health and interface product among human sciences and health: the social view of illness; the gender perspective as a particular form of the relation health-society and the health promotion while positive means of health. It elaborates the thematic around three approach axises, conformed in the relation between men and health from the perspective of exercises of the masculinity: sexual and reproductive health; violence and gender, and morbid-mortality in men. The contributions that these axises produce are mentioned as empiric effort to accomplish the category gender, the time in which they reveal health new problems to the health's area: the paternity, the interactive exercise of the sexuality, the interpersonal violence in life closet scope, the hipper-masculinity in the violence among men, the care of their self and the caring of health for the men. These contributions will allow not only to insert the masculinities as health matter, but also to renew the treatment forms for men and women in the health field.

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          Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being: a theory of gender and health.

          Men in the United States suffer more severe chronic conditions, have higher death rates for all 15 leading causes of death, and die nearly 7 yr younger than women. Health-related beliefs and behaviours are important contributors to these differences. Men in the United States are more likely than women to adopt beliefs and behaviours that increase their risks, and are less likely to engage in behaviours that are linked with health and longevity. In an attempt to explain these differences, this paper proposes a relational theory of men's health from a social constructionist and feminist perspective. It suggests that health-related beliefs and behaviours, like other social practices that women and men engage in, are a means for demonstrating femininities and masculinities. In examining constructions of masculinity and health within a relational context, this theory proposes that health behaviours are used in daily interactions in the social structuring of gender and power. It further proposes that the social practices that undermine men's health are often signifiers of masculinity and instruments that men use in the negotiation of social power and status. This paper explores how factors such as ethnicity, economic status, educational level, sexual orientation and social context influence the kind of masculinity that men construct and contribute to differential health risks among men in the United States. It also examines how masculinity and health are constructed in relation to femininities and to institutional structures, such as the health care system. Finally, it explores how social and institutional structures help to sustain and reproduce men's health risks and the social construction of men as the stronger sex.
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                Journal
                csc
                Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
                Ciênc. saúde coletiva
                ABRASCO - Associação Brasileira de Saúde Coletiva (Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil )
                1413-8123
                1678-4561
                March 2005
                : 10
                : 1
                : 7-17
                Affiliations
                [01] São Paulo São Paulo orgnameUniversidade de São Paulo orgdiv1Faculdade de Medicina orgdiv2Departamento de Medicina Preventiva Brazil liliabli@ 123456usp.br
                [02] orgnameFundação Oswaldo Cruz orgdiv1Instituto Fernandes Figueira
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                S1413-81232005000100002 S1413-8123(05)01000102
                10.1590/S1413-81232005000100002
                e194707c-9f45-409d-ac37-ccdf1b48d630

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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