Charting a course to men's health and wellbeing: applying a lens of power and politics to improve men's health outcomes.

Men’s health has received limited policy attention because power operates through ideas and institutions that conflate gender with women and sustain institutional inertia.

• Why it matters: The gap leaves socially or structurally marginalised men with poorer health and life expectancy outcomes without consistent national or global agenda-setting.
• What they did: This third Lancet Men’s Health Series paper applies a gender lens to a 3-i theory-based framework, reviewing how ideas, interests, and institutions shape prioritisation, framing, and resource allocation.
• The result: The analysis suggests this neglect creates space for commercial actors, including the manosphere, to shape narratives and influence men’s health in line with commercial or ideological interests, informing politically grounded strategies for equity.

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