Características das políticas públicas de saúde relacionadas ao homem: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

It is a study of narrative review, whose objective was to analyze the scientific literature on public health policies related to man. The survey was composed of two articles indexed in major databases in public health: MEDLINE and LILACS. Among the articles that met the goal, only eight made up the sample, selected in the period 1998 to 2010. Considering the analyzed articles we can notice that there is a considerable difference in mortality rates of men and women and this has to be considered by health professionals and faced by health services. The articles also explain that men, when influenced by strong ideologies, they can prejudice either their health or the women's one. Culturally, because of his sense of masculinity, man hardly looks for health facilities, and so it becomes a challenge for public health. We can also observe that the only participation that is still incipient refers to man in prevention and promotion to sexual and reproductive health, where man has been invited to participate in the care of pregnancy and childbirth. Finally, the results of studies reveal the need for discussion on the formulation and evaluation of public health policies directed exclusively to health care for the man, able to assist him in their entirety, including actions aimed not only to sexual health , reproductive, but also for prevention of prostate cancer and guidelines for the care of man in a violent situation, since this issue depends not only on interventions in the health field.