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- Title
Elementos da masculinidade que vulnerabilizam homens à morbimortalidade pela COVID-19: revisão integrativa.
- Authors
de Jesus Soares, Andréia; Soares E. Soares, Caroline Fernandes; dos Santos Silva, Fernanda Caetano; Ferreira da Silva, Andrey; Matheus Estrela, Fernanda; Fernandes de Magalhães, Júlia Renata; da Silva Oliveira, Milena Arão; Moreira Lima, Anderson
- Abstract
The objective was to know the elements of masculinity that make men vulnerable to morbidity and mortality by COVID-19. It is an integrative review, carried out in May 2020, through the Pubcovid-19 platforms and the Virtual Health Library. The following search strategies "Covid" and "Men" were used; "Covid" and "Men" and "Health"; "Covid" and "Gender identity", state 490 documents and after the inclusion criteria, they totaled 07 articles. The elements of masculinity that incite the vulnerability of men to morbidity and mortality by COVID-19 concern family provision and consequent occupational exposure at work, unhealthy lifestyle, expressed by smoking and alcoholism, violation of social distance rules, neglect of practices preventive measures, which reverberate in the weakened male immune system. However, the literature also revealed that the lack of male search for health services influenced by the conviction of invulnerability and by the political discourses that alleviate the disease are also influencing the increase in male exposure and mortality by COVID-19. The knowledge of the elements that favor men to illness and consequent death by the disease, urgent that they be thought of prevention for this public.
- Publication
Saúde Coletiva, 2021, Vol 11, Issue 65, p5926
- ISSN
1806-3365
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.36489/saudecoletiva.2021v11i65p5926-5939