TY - JOUR
T1 - COVID-19, Equity and Men’s Health
T2 - Using Evidence to Inform Future Public Health Policy, Practice and Research Responses in Pandemics
AU - Smith, James
AU - Griffith, Derek
AU - White, Alan
AU - Baker, Peter
AU - Watkins, Daphne
AU - Drummond, Murray
AU - Semlow, Andrea
PY - 2020/7/6
Y1 - 2020/7/6
N2 - In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) reflected a global pandemic. Early epidemiological analyses demonstrated that boys and men have similar rates of COVID-19 infection to girls and women. However, boys and men appear to be disproportionately impacted with respect to severity and mortality, including those from marginalised or minority backgrounds. Yet, considerations of sex and gender, and their relationship to health and social inequities, have been absent from recent COVID-19 policy and practice pandemic responses. This evidence-based commentary discusses the nexus between COVID-19, equity, and boys and men’s health from a broad public health perspective. Using scholarship about intersections between race and gender; and poverty, social determinants of health, and gender; we explain why a health equity lens is important to address the health and social inequities boys and men face during pandemics. This contribution provides guidance about future global public health pandemic responses for society’s most vulnerable groups of boys and men.
AB - In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) reflected a global pandemic. Early epidemiological analyses demonstrated that boys and men have similar rates of COVID-19 infection to girls and women. However, boys and men appear to be disproportionately impacted with respect to severity and mortality, including those from marginalised or minority backgrounds. Yet, considerations of sex and gender, and their relationship to health and social inequities, have been absent from recent COVID-19 policy and practice pandemic responses. This evidence-based commentary discusses the nexus between COVID-19, equity, and boys and men’s health from a broad public health perspective. Using scholarship about intersections between race and gender; and poverty, social determinants of health, and gender; we explain why a health equity lens is important to address the health and social inequities boys and men face during pandemics. This contribution provides guidance about future global public health pandemic responses for society’s most vulnerable groups of boys and men.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Men's Health
KW - Equity
KW - Gender
KW - Pandemic
KW - Men’s health
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85096949315&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.22374/ijmsch.v3i1.42
DO - 10.22374/ijmsch.v3i1.42
M3 - Article
SN - 2561-9179
VL - 3
SP - e48-e64
JO - International Journal of Men's Social and Community Health
JF - International Journal of Men's Social and Community Health
IS - 1
ER -