Health policies that do not consider gendered patterns in health continue to undermine efforts to improve global health and well-being. When health policies
include gender considerations, gender is almost always used to refer to women and women’s health. Greater progress on women’s health is a crucial and unfinished
project, but the concept of gender should take an all- encompassing view to understand how gendered norms and practices across society shape health problems that require gender-responsive solutions that benefit everyone. Currently, men are largely absent from health policy as a group in need of gender-specific support