Movember: why are males nonetheless reluctant to see a health care provider?

The month of November is Male Illness Consciousness Month, higher often called Movember. Many males refuse to see a health care provider to the detriment of their well being which finally deteriorates. In 2019, 80% of males had consulted a basic practitioner for lower than a yr, in comparison with 88% of girls. The proportion is even decrease relating to a specialist physician.

“We’re additionally somewhat too lazy to go to the physician”

In accordance with the INSEE survey, nearly one in two males haven’t been there for a yr. That is the case of Alain, 58, who has solely consulted three specialists in his life: “when issues are going nicely, we don’t fear and we don’t do prevention. We’re additionally somewhat lazy to ‘go to the physician and so long as issues are going nicely, we postpone the deadline till the day we are saying to ourselves that it’s time to do one thing.’

In contrast to males, ladies are used to seeing a health care provider since they’re younger, particularly the gynecologist. “Males’s well being is an actual taboo,” believes Benjamin Pradère, member of the French Affiliation of Urology. “They don’t like to speak about male pathologies as a result of they have an effect on males preferring to maintain it to themselves they usually don’t dare to go for a session.”

This has the consequence that therapeutic administration “will likely be tougher than when illnesses are caught earlier”. Because of this, regrets the physician, the life expectancy of males could be affected by this lack of prevention.