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Expects Yuge Games
I think this is one area where some complaining by men about unfairness and neglect is warranted. Good op-ed piece by Richard Reeves, president of the American Institute for Men and Boys.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/27/men-health-crisis-gender-gaps/
America is losing too many men. Not on the battlefield but in our hospitals and our homes. The growing crisis in male health has been ignored for decades, and it’s time for that to change.
The life expectancy gap between men and women widened from less than five years in 2010 to nearly six years in 2022, largely because of increased “deaths of despair,” which include drug poisoning and suicide, as well as the higher male death rate from covid-19.
Men have a higher mortality rate than women in 13 of the 15 leading causes of death. The largest gaps are found in the two most common causes of death: heart disease and cancer.
Most tragically, men are much more likely to take their own lives. The risk of dying from suicide is four times higher for boys and men than for their female peers. Since 2010, the suicide rate for men younger than 30 has risen by 40 percent and is now higher than for middle-aged men. Each year, about 40,000 men are being lost to suicide, about the same as the number of women who die from breast cancer.
These gender gaps are not set in stone; the life expectancy gap between men and women was just two years until a few decades ago. The fact that they are getting wider should sound an alarm.
The Biden administration has been proactive on women’s health, launching a $100 million initiative on women’s health research, a blueprint for improving maternal health, and a five-year strategic plan on women’s health out of the National Institutes of Health. On Mother’s Day in 2022, a new maternal mental health hotline was created.
These are all important initiatives. There are many health concerns specific to girls and women that demand attention, not least regarding reproductive health. For too long, these were neglected. The problem is not the work being done for the health of women and girls; the problem is the lack of attention to men’s health.
In 2020, the federal government set out its public health goals for 2030. They include 42 goals for children, 29 for women, and 18 for LGBTQ+ people. For men, there are four.
There are 44 preventive health-care interventions (excluding vaccinations) that are fully covered under the Affordable Care Act, a major public health advance of the last decade. Of these, 20 apply to both sexes and 23 apply only to women (including 12 for those who are pregnant). There is only one for men. (In case you’re curious, it is screening for an abdominal aortic aneurysm among men aged 65-75 who are smokers.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/27/men-health-crisis-gender-gaps/
America is losing too many men. Not on the battlefield but in our hospitals and our homes. The growing crisis in male health has been ignored for decades, and it’s time for that to change.
The life expectancy gap between men and women widened from less than five years in 2010 to nearly six years in 2022, largely because of increased “deaths of despair,” which include drug poisoning and suicide, as well as the higher male death rate from covid-19.
Men have a higher mortality rate than women in 13 of the 15 leading causes of death. The largest gaps are found in the two most common causes of death: heart disease and cancer.
Most tragically, men are much more likely to take their own lives. The risk of dying from suicide is four times higher for boys and men than for their female peers. Since 2010, the suicide rate for men younger than 30 has risen by 40 percent and is now higher than for middle-aged men. Each year, about 40,000 men are being lost to suicide, about the same as the number of women who die from breast cancer.
These gender gaps are not set in stone; the life expectancy gap between men and women was just two years until a few decades ago. The fact that they are getting wider should sound an alarm.
The Biden administration has been proactive on women’s health, launching a $100 million initiative on women’s health research, a blueprint for improving maternal health, and a five-year strategic plan on women’s health out of the National Institutes of Health. On Mother’s Day in 2022, a new maternal mental health hotline was created.
These are all important initiatives. There are many health concerns specific to girls and women that demand attention, not least regarding reproductive health. For too long, these were neglected. The problem is not the work being done for the health of women and girls; the problem is the lack of attention to men’s health.
In 2020, the federal government set out its public health goals for 2030. They include 42 goals for children, 29 for women, and 18 for LGBTQ+ people. For men, there are four.
There are 44 preventive health-care interventions (excluding vaccinations) that are fully covered under the Affordable Care Act, a major public health advance of the last decade. Of these, 20 apply to both sexes and 23 apply only to women (including 12 for those who are pregnant). There is only one for men. (In case you’re curious, it is screening for an abdominal aortic aneurysm among men aged 65-75 who are smokers.)
