Health and Male: The Effect of the Pandemic and its Inequities

ABSTRACT

The Covid-19 pandemic has generated differential impacts from a gender perspective on health. The highest mortality in recent years has been mainly in men, one in every 5 men has already died at age 49 in the Americas, whose main causes are preventable, associated with hegemonic male behavior. These antecedents acted consequently in the higher male mortality from Covid-19, greater occupation of beds, together with biological factors that predispose men to become more seriously ill. But the pandemic has also increased alcohol consumption, modified illicit drug use patterns, increased the risk of sexual practices with drugs such as chemsex. At the same time, it has been an opportunity for the involvement of parents with their sons and daughters, in the school work of the television study, in care and upbringing or, failing that, zero involvement, maintaining the affective amputation imposed by the patriarchal system. Finally, it is important to generate public health policies towards men, from a gender relational perspective, which will positively affect their own health, but also the health of couples, sons, and daughters.