[...]... enthusiastically agreed to compose Dying to Be Men: Psychosocial, Environmental, and Biobehavioral Directions in Promoting the Health of Men and Boys for this series I am so glad that he did! In Dying to Be Men, Dr Courtenay takes us into the world of boys and men, alerting us to the troubling fact that too many males are killing themselves, sometimes slowly over the course of a lifetime through a series of poor lifestyle... under the following four categories: behaviors of men and boys, health- related beliefs and the expression of emotions and physical distress, underlying factors that in uence the health and health- related behaviors and beliefs of men and boys, and health care BEHAVIORS AND HEALTH PRACTICES OF MEN AND BOYS Men s and boys behaviors and health practices are a major determinant of their excess mortality and. .. health -promoting behaviors by engaging Key Determinants of the Health and Well-Being of Men and Boys TABLE 1.3 Thirty-One Key Determinants of the Health and Well-Being of U.S Men and Boys Behaviors of men and boys 1 Health -promoting behavior 2 Risk-taking behavior 3 Physical abuse and violence 4 Social support 5 Behavioral responses to stress 6 Health care use Health- related beliefs and the expression of emotions... understanding differences among men and how masculinity in uences men s health The second was to provide direction to researchers, academics, and practitioners, including effective, evidence-based strategies for clinicians, community health workers, public health of cials, psychologists, and other health care Dying to Be Men 8 professionals to improve the health and well-being of men and boys To accomplish... of disease, injury, and death This section summarizes some of these fi ndings in regard to six aspects of men s behaviors: health -promoting behavior, risk-taking behavior, physical abuse and violence, social support, behavioral responses to stress, and health care use Health -Promoting Behavior Men and boys, in general, have less healthy lifestyles than women and girls, and they engage in far fewer health -promoting. .. than women And today Men s Health magazine is the top-selling magazine in the United States and the largest men s magazine in the world, with 10 million readers in 39 countries The subject of men s health has also fi nally captured the attention of medical communities and health scientists—as well as policy makers and governments around the world, including in Australia, the United Kingdom, Austria, and. .. examine the complexity of these men s lives and wellbeing I conclude by proposing an interdisciplinary biopsychosocial and behavioral approach to the study of men s health that unites these complementary perspectives In the fi nal chapter of the book, I provide a global perspective on the field of men s health In doing so, I recommend a variety of precepts for developing new theoretical paradigms and. .. voiced the need to examine and understand the environments and social contexts within which health behaviors occur In recent years, other health scientists and organizations have increasingly joined in this effort, including the American Cancer Society (Kushi et al., 2006) To help explain why women and men adopt the health beliefs and behaviors that they do, Chapter 3 reviews research examining gender... wealth of literature and research in a diverse array of disciplines—as well as from original research specifically designed to study gender and men s health This fi rst chapter examines the main in uences on the health of men and boys in the United States It does so by identifying and discussing 31 key determinants of physical and mental health and well-being (see Table 1.3) It summarizes these factors... constructionist and feminist perspective In this theoretical model, I suggest that health- related beliefs and behaviors, like other social practices that women and men engage in, are a means for demonstrating various forms of femininity and masculinity In examining constructions of masculinity and health within a relational context, this theory proposes that health behaviors are used in daily interactions in the . enthusiastically agreed to compose Dying to Be Men: Psychosocial, Environmental, and Biobehavioral Directions in Promoting the Health of Men and Boys for this series Cataloging -in- Publication Data Courtenay, William. Dying to be men : psychosocial, environmental, and biobehavioral directions in promoting the health of men and