Saúde do homem: um desafio para os serviços de saúde

Abstract

Human health is a challenge for health services, for the health disorders related to male have been increasing and are already considered public health problems. There are many assumptions and justifications for the little male presence in the primary health care services. The overall objective of this study is to identify the reasons that lead men not to seek the health service attention primária. Os specific objectives would encourage men to exercise self care and identify how primary care can address human health. The method used for the development of the work was to literature, made through searches on secondary sources in book, magazine and journal articles in the databases SCIELO, LILACS and Google Scholar. On the research, we can say that gender is the main factor that complicates the relationship between man and health. Man is a being influenced by the role assigned to it, which is the provider, strong, manly, thus hindering the demand for health services. The promotion and prevention to health is a duty of the health team, especially the ESF which has this purpose. But it is necessary to enable the ESF of the multidisciplinary team in order to absolve the lawsuit filed by men, bringing them to health services.