Men’s Health Equity
A Handbook

Worldwide, men have more opportunities, privileges, and power, yet they also have shorter life expectancies than women. Why is this? Why are there stark differences in the burden of disease, quality of life, and length of life amongst men, by race, ethnicity, (dis)ability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, rurality, and national context? Why is this a largely unexplored area of research? Men?s Health Equity is the first volume to describe men?s health equity as a field of study that emerged from gaps in and between research on men?s health and health inequities.

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of foundations of the field; summarizes the issues unique to different populations; discusses key frameworks for studying and exploring issues that cut across populations in the United States, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Central America, and South America; and offers strategies for improving the health of key population groups and achieving men?s health equity overall. This book systematically explores the underlying causes of these differences, describes the specific challenges faced by particular groups of men, and offers policy and programmatic strategies to improve the health and well-being of men and pursue men?s health equity. Men?s Health Equity will be the first collection to present the state of the science in this field, its progress, its breadth, and its future.

This book is an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers, students, and professionals interested in men?s health equity, men?s health, psychology of men?s health, gender studies, public health, and global health.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: Psychosocial and Developmental Foundations of Men’s Health Equity

1. Introduction

Derek M. Griffith, PhD, Marino A. Bruce, PhD, MSRC, MDiv, and Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., PhD

2. Masculinity and Men’s Health Disparities: Conceptual and Theoretical Challenges

Steve Robertson, PhD, RGN and Lynne Kilvington-Dowd

3. Precarious Manhood for Men’s Health and Men’s Health Disparities

Joseph A. Vandello, PhD, Jennifer K. Bosson, PhD, and Joanna R. Lawler

4. Fatherhood as a Social Context for Reducing Men’s Health Disparities: Lessons Learned from the Fathers and Sons Program

Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, PhD, Kazumi Tsuchiya, MPH, Shervin Assari, MD, MPH, and Alvin Thomas, PhD

5. Young Adulthood and Health Disparities in African American Males

Michael Cunningham, PhD and Antanious White

6. Middle-Aged Men’s Health: Patterns and Causes of Health Inequities During a Pivotal Period in the Life Course

Derek M. Griffith, PhD, Emily Cornish Jaeger, MPH, Ledric D. Sherman, PhD, MA, and Heath J. Moore, BS

7. Men’s Health in Later Life: Diverse and Intersecting Contexts

Jamie Mitchell, MSSW, PhD, Julie Ober Allen, PhD, MPH, and Ramona Perry, BA

8. Measuring the Dimensions of African American Manhood: A Factor Analysis

Derek M. Griffith, PhD, Jacquelyn S. Pennings, PhD, Marino A. Bruce, PhD, MSRC, MDiv, and Gregory D. Ayers, MS

Part II: Environmental, Social, and Policy Determinants of Men’s Health Inequities

9. Being a Man in the Countryside: How Rural Men Navigate Health and Masculinity

Bradley Hiebert, MSc, PhD, Beverly Leipert, RN, PhD, and Sandra Regan, RN, PhD

10. Urban Men’s Health: How Urban Environments Affect Black Men’s Health

Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., PhD, MSW

11. Incarceration as Determinant of Poor Health Outcomes

Jason M. Williams, PhD and Carrie Bergeson, MS, CFLE

12. The Public Health Disparities of Domestic Violence: Including the Perspectives and Health of Ethnic-Minority Men

Rohan D. Jeremiah, PhD and Olubunmi Basirat Oyewowo-Gassikia, PhD, LMSW

13. Global Men’s Health Policy

Noel Richardson, PhD, James A. Smith, PhD, Steve Robertson, PhD, RGN, and Peter Baker, MA, FRSPH

14. Health, Public, and Social Policy

Henrie M. Treadwell, PhD and Marguerite J. Ro, DrPH

15. What Influences Adolescent Black Male Development and Well-Being? Implications of the Limits and Opportunities of Social Policy

Keon L. Gilbert, DrPH, MA, MPH, Rashawn J. Ray, PhD, and Odis D. Johnson, PhD

Part III: Health Behaviors and Health Outcomes

16. Male Health Behaviors

Michael J. Rovito, PhD, CHES, FMHI

17. Considerations in Men’s Mental Health Promotion and Treatment

Zac E. Seidler, MCP, Simon M. Rice, PhD, John S. Ogrodniczuk, PhD, David Kealy, PhD, Haryana M. Dhillon, PhD, and John L. Oliffe, PhD, MEd, RN

18. Depression, Trauma, and Suicide Among Adolescent and Young Adult Males

Michael A. Lindsey, PhD, MSW, MPH and Yunyu Xiao, MPhil

19. Men’s Trauma, Depression, and Suicide in Adulthood

Daphne C. Watkins, PhD and Janelle R. Goodwill, MSW

20. Cancer Disparities in Men

Kelvin A. Moses, MD, PhD, FACS

21. Diabetes Health Disparities in Men: A Brief Review of the Influence of Gender on the Onset and Progression of Diabetes in Men and Implications for Interventions and Practice

Jaclynn M. Hawkins, MSW, PhD, Rosalyn Denise Campbell, PhD, LMSW, Charles Graham, LSMW, PhD

Part IV: Men’s Health Inequities in the United States

22. The Health of Gay and Bisexual Men: Theoretical Approaches and Policy Implications

Stephanie H. Cook, DrPH, MPH, Erica P. Wood, MPH, Jason Harris, MPH, Paul D’Avanzo, MS, and Perry N. Halkitis, PhD, MS, MPH

23. Transgender and Intersex Men

David A. Rubin, PhD

24. Health Disparities Among Men with Disabilities and Functional Limitations

Carlos M. Cervantes, PhD, CAPE and Samuel R. Hodge, PhD

25. Asian American Men’s Health: Applications of the Racial-Cultural Framework

Y. Joel Wong, PhD, Keiko McCullough, and Kuo Deng

26. Understanding Health Inequalities Experienced by Black Men: Fundamental Links Between Racism, Socioeconomic Position, and Social Mobility

Darrell Hudson, PhD, MPH, Andrae Banks, PhD, LCSW, Derek Holland, MPH, and Whitney Sewell

27. Understanding Health and Health Disparities in European American Boys and Men

Eric S. Mankowski, PhD and Nick Glover

28. Cultural, Social and Historical Factors Influencing Latino Men’s Health

Jason Daniel-Ulloa, PhD, India J. Ornelas, and Alejandra Escoto

29. Seeking Health and Well-Being for Indigenous North American Men

Arthur W. Blume, PhD

30. Achieving Health Equity for Native Hawaiian Men: Aia I Hea Ka Wai A Kāne

Ka‘imi Alohilani Sinclair, PhD and Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula, PhD

Part V: Men’s Health Inequities Across the Globe

31. Understanding Inequities in Men’s Health in Australia: What Do We Know?

James A. Smith, PhD, Murray Drummond, MEd, PhD, Mick Adams, PhD, Jason Bonson, Benjamin Christie

32. Which Men? Inequality, Ethnicity, and Gender in Brazil’s National Men’s Health Program

Gary Barker, PhD, Eduardo Schwarz, and Daniel Costa Lima

33. Picturing Intersectionality in Men’s Suicide Research: A Photovoice Case Study of Gay and Bisexual Men

Olivier Ferlatte, PhD and John L. Oliffe, PhD, MEd, RN

34. Regional Variation in Determinants of Men’s Health: Comparison of South, Central, and North America

Shervin Assari, MD, MPH

Part VI: Final Thoughts and Future Directions

35. Life Course Perspective: Implications for Men’s Health Equity

Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., PhD and Paul C. Archibald, DrPH, LCSW-C

36. Afterword

Lisa Bowleg, MA, PhD

37. Conclusion

Derek M. Griffith, PhD, Marino A. Bruce, PhD, MDiv, and Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., PhD

Derek M. Griffith, PhD is the Founder and Director of the Center for Research on Men’s Health and Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. His research applies an intersectional approach to explore strategies to eliminate men’s health disparities and improve Black and Latino men’s health in the United States and the health of men across the globe.

Marino A. Bruce, PhD, MSRC, MDiv is Associate Director of the Center for Research on Men’s Health, Director of the Program for Research on Faith and Health within the Center, and Research Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. His research examines religion and spirituality as determinants of health for African American boys and men.

Roland J. Thorpe, Jr., PhD is Founding Director of the Program for Research on Men’s Health and Associate Professor of Health, Behavior, and Society at Bloomberg School of Public Health. As a social epidemiologist and gerontologist, his research focuses on understanding the biopsychosocial factors that lead to improving the lives of African American men using a life course perspective.