Generally, men have poorer health status than women, this happens because of several factors, including culture which emphasizes the importance of achievement and competence. Besides the belief in manliness and courage make him more dangerous potential to do work and the tendency to not use a sufficient deterrent.
There are several facts that can be seen and associated with lower perceived health of men than women. The most obvious and most occurred in many countries in the world are the difference in life expectancy between men and women. Where male life expectancy tends to be shorter, ranging from 4 to 6 years shorter than women. When judging any further, it turns out that the death occurred (especially in men) many of which are premature and should be prevented. Related to this we also need to know and know well about the disease that often affects and cause of death in men and ultimately health promotion or preventive actions can be performed as early as possible.
Some diseases are the cause of death in men is heart disease, lung disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes and cancer. It’s important for men to realize their vulnerability and take positive action to prevent the arrival of these diseases. And increased attention to yourself the existence of risk factors that may be present as a history of heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure in the family, obesity, poor lifestyle, smoking and stress
Another interesting thing to note is related to the nature of men’s health issues or feelings which are common in men, namely fear, shame and refused to budge. Fear of a doubt its existence as a man, ashamed to declare themselves sick always be identified as a weakness and try to show they capable of giving rise paced nature refused to budge. Not to mention the typical coping mechanism that occurs in men who are experiencing a state events are quite heavy, they generally do things that are not good for their own health, such as smoking, drinking alcohol etc. Looking at some of it is the involvement of other people / groups as a booster for the men pay more attention to health would be something to be done. In this case the woman can be very influential.
