Men's health: an intersectional and multilevel framework for understanding syndemic patterns of health.

A new intersectional, multilevel conceptual framework for men’s health integrates structural, social, and commercial determinants with syndemic theory to analyze marginalised men’s outcomes across socioecological levels.

• Why it matters: Existing men’s health research often overemphasizes individual harmful behaviours and deficit narratives, leaving structural drivers and gendered effects of worsening inequalities undertheorised.
• What they did: This first Lancet Series paper proposes the framework and illustrates it with four selected case studies, combining intersectionality and syndemic theory to examine complex interactions at different levels.
• The result: The framework supports a working definition of men’s health and implies that gender justice and health equity require moving beyond one-dimensional approaches toward action on power systems and structural determinants.

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