Men Care less about their Health than Women

Director General of Population, Family, and Schools Sector of the Ministry of Health, Treatment, and Medical Education declared: “A look at men and women’s health indexes indicates that men are less careful about their health-care than women.”

Dr. Mohmmad Esmaeel Motlagh referred to the fact that it is “Men’s Health Week” from February 19th to February 25th in an interview with Webda and declared: “Currently traffic accidents, addiction, and falling down among men are respectively 5 times, 10 times, and 3 times higher than that of women, and also men’s life expectancy is 72/8 years as compared to that of 74 years among women.” 

He referred to the researches conducted on men’s health and said: “Accidents due to mechanical powers, murder, aggression, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, cardiovascular illnesses, suicide, burn, mental disorders, Aids, and HIV infections are more common among men than women.”

He remarked: “Non-contagious diseases including obesity, cigarette smoking, high cholesterol, and diabetes are also more apparent among men than women.”

Director General of Population, Family, and Schools Sector of the Ministry of Health, Treatment, and Medical Education declared the programs of “Men’s Health Week” in the seven areas of  “Healthy Life Technique”,  “Traffic Accidents Prevention”, “Mental Health Elevation”, “Cardiovascular Cases and its Dangers Prevention”, “Men’s Fertility Health Elevation”, “ Men and Family’s Health”, and “Occupational Accidents Prevention”.