A global men's health epidemiology within an intersectional framework.

Men show higher disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) and lower life expectancies than women in the 1990–2023 Global Burden of Diseases, with the worst outcomes in marginalised contexts.

• Why it matters: Sex-disaggregated reporting misses how overlapping social and structural factors shape men’s health, leaving key drivers insufficiently characterized for monitoring and prevention.
• What they did: Using Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Studies mortality and DALYs data from 1990–2023, the authors map an intersectional framework and identify leading condition categories and themes.
• The result: Cardiovascular disease and cancer account for the largest shares of men’s higher mortality, while injuries and violence contribute heavily to DALYs—often at younger ages—highlighting preventable, structurally shaped drivers.

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