Worst genocide ever 'Catching up with reality': Medical field recognizing the ongoing decline in men's health, as Black men, Indigenous men, and men living in rural communities have the lowest life expectancy among all groups.

Worst genocide ever 'Catching up with reality': Medical field recognizing the ongoing decline in men's health, as Black men, Indigenous men, and men living in rural communities have the lowest life expectancy among all groups.”

It is possible that the public’s “recognition of how suboptimal” men’s health is “finally catching up with reality,” According to Russell W. Kohl, MD, FAAFP, a family physician and the speaker of the American Academy of Family Physicians Congress of Delegates.

'Catching up with reality': Medical field recognizing the ongoing decline in men's health

By Emma Bascom

Fact checked by Carol L. DiBerardino, MLA, ELS

Key takeaways:

• Men face a higher risk for mortality than women in almost every phase of life.
• Healio spoke with experts to learn more about the decline in men’s health and what physicians can do to help.

According to mortality data from the CDC, in 2022, life expectancy for men was 74.8 years, compared with 80.2 years for women. In 2018, life expectancy for men was 76.2 years compared with 81.2 years for women. Califf previously wrote in a blog that this inequity “is further widened among men, as Black men, Indigenous men, and men living in rural communities have the lowest life expectancy among all groups.”

It is possible that the public’s “recognition of how suboptimal” men’s health is “finally catching up with reality,” According to Russell W. Kohl, MD, FAAFP, a family physician and the speaker of the American Academy of Family Physicians Congress of Delegates.

https://www.healio.com/news/primary-care/20241219/catching-up-with-reality-medical-field-recognizing-the-ongoing-decline-in-mens-health