A Call for Gender-Inclusive Global Health Strategies

The WHO\u27s Global Strategy for Women\u27s, Children\u27s, and Adolescents\u27 Health 2016-2030 (GS-WCAH 2016-2030) is a comprehensive plan developed to improve the lives of women, children, and adolescents. Due to the success in the creation, ratification, and advocacy of the GS-WCAH 2016-2030, the clear health outcome disparities between males and females, and the general absence of male health from existing policies and sponsored programs, it is time now to develop a global strategy specifically drafted to improve the lives of men and boys. The following commentary provides three points for why a male-oriented program, like the GS-WCAH 2016-2030, should be created: (a) health outcomes disparities, (b) economic impact of poor male health, and (c) fathers\u27 role in promoting the health of women, children, and adolescents. Implications for how male health can be incorporated into future projects and priorities are provided, as well as advocacy for overall gender-inclusivity in regard to global public health efforts

Sex, Gender, Sexual Assault, and Rape on The Red Pill: A Thematic and Linguistic Analysis

The digital space has offered fertile new territory to connect with like-minded individuals and discuss anything and everything. This has resulted in the creation of the Manosphere, a collection of men concerned about the state of men and masculinity and how society views and treats men. One of the places online this community has found a home is the popular website Reddit, which offers the ability to create individual pages in which communities can form around and discuss and share information on almost any topic they desire. This study aimed to investigate the ways in which one community on Reddit, The Red Pill, views and discusses gender, sex, and consent through the use of thematic and linguistic analysis of popular content posts. Results found that this community does not have unique or novel views of any of the topics, but taken these views to their inevitable extremes. Seeing men as stoic, rational, and concerned with increasing their success in life as well as their number of sexual partners and encounters. Women, on the other hand, are seen as emotional, child-like, manipulative, and concerned with leeching off of men\u27s financial and social success. This study represents one of the first examinations of the Manosphere and the emerging views of masculinity, femininity, and sex therein which have been ideologically connected to violent acts committed by young men within these groups. This study provides need detail and examples of how these online groups view gender and sex, and the ways in which they apply those views day-to-day out in the real world

Heir to the Throne: Ron DeSantis’s Inheritance of a Trumpian COVID-19 Ideology

Despite the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, a surprising number of Americans remain skeptical of vaccines and other preventative measures. This variance in attitude may be explained in part by the diverse pandemic responses of state governors and their political ideologies. Using Florida governor Ron DeSantis as a case study, we analyze an October 2021 press conference using the rhetorical method of ideological criticism to explore the governor’s ideological stance towards public health, personal liberty, and the balance between safety and economic concerns. We find he embraces an ideology of “Trumpism” that emphasizes personal choice over public health and economic prosperity over safety. We argue that DeSantis’s rhetorical choices help position him as a political heir to Trump and that he used his pandemic response to achieve this political goal. Our analysis helps illuminate the motivations behind DeSantis’s public health decisions during the pandemic and how other governors may have been similarly motivated. Our research contributes to the study of the rhetoric of political leaders and how their policy responses can be ideologically constructed through their speeches as well as how they can use rhetorical strategies to conceal and reveal their motives

Increasing Urologic Care Ratios: Implications Of Male Patient Care In Florida

Ongoing trends have revealed an inverse relationship between population growth and the number of practicing urologists in the U.S. per capita, which threatens urologic care accessibility. Furthermore, different regions in the United States may be more negatively impacted due to higher population growth rates. The state of Florida witnessed over a 10% higher growth rate compared with national figures between 2000 and 2015. Coupled with data suggesting that since the 1980s, the number of U.S. urologists per capita has been decreasing, the foreseeable future presents many challenges regarding health equity and accessibility. This secondary analysis aimed to investigate the implications of forecasted urologic care decline within a growing population and how it can contribute to adverse male health outcomes. National- and state-level data were collected to calculate a series of urologic care ratios as defined by the number of urologists compared with population sizes. Analyses revealed that national-level urologic care ratios and prostate cancer incidence rates have a significant positive relationship, lending to the conclusion that with fewer urologists, the number of cases identified will decrease. State-level forecasted models indicated that the urologic care ratio will decrease approximately 30% in Florida from 6.23 per 100,000 in 2010 to 4.39 per 100,000 by the year 2030. As growth in demand for urologic care will increase in the next decade, a dire public health scenario is potentially unfolding. Future implications of undiagnosed prostate cancer due to the lack of access will drive an increase in mortality rates as well as health equity concerns for men

A Call For Gender-Inclusive Global Health Strategies

The WHO’s “Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescents’ Health 2016-2030” (GS-WCAH 2016-2030) is a comprehensive plan developed to improve the lives of women, children, and adolescents. Due to the success in the creation, ratification, and advocacy of the GS-WCAH 2016-2030, the clear health outcome disparities between males and females, and the general absence of male health from existing policies and sponsored programs, it is time now to develop a global strategy specifically drafted to improve the lives of men and boys. The following commentary provides three points for why a male-oriented program, like the GS-WCAH 2016-2030, should be created: (a) health outcomes disparities, (b) economic impact of poor male health, and (c) fathers’ role in promoting the health of women, children, and adolescents. Implications for how male health can be incorporated into future projects and priorities are provided, as well as advocacy for overall gender-inclusivity in regard to global public health efforts

A \u27Structured\u27 Phenomenological Approach To Promoting Health Among Young Adult And Adolescent Males

Young adult and adolescent males (YAAM) experience disparate health outcomes as compared to their female counterparts despite wellness promotion services targeted specifically for this population. One major obstacle in bringing about a truer sense of public health is the lack of evidence-based research on health-related attitudes, perceptions, and lived experiences of YAAMs. This implies the presence of systemic issues in the way YAAM health and wellness information is gathered and input into health informatics systems, which therefore leads to a need to improve current strategies of service within this population. A novel methodological approach, known as structured phenomenology, was created to identify the underlying mechanisms contributing to the current health disparities experienced by males. It could also provide a thematic structure from which more accurate and reliable information, as well as communication systems for YAAMs, can be created. A series of semi-structured interviews were conducted to learn about YAAM health behavior decisions and related outcomes. Participant responses produced eight core themes as it related to YAAM health and wellness. These extracted data create an opportunity to better inform prevention and intervention support services for this population in order to improve proximal, intermediate, and distal health outcomes through the creation of an original, validated assessment tool