Man’s access to health services in primary care

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the factors that influence man’s access to health services in primary care. Method: It is a descriptive and exploratory study, with a qualitative approach, carried out with eight men through focus group in October 2010. The data was analyzed based on the technique of the Collective Subject Discourse. Results: The users expressed precarious investment in the service organization from a gender perspective, reinforcing common sense that men are not the primary users, and remain subsidized by a patriarchal ideology. Conclusion: It is necessary to think about determining socio-historical-cultural ways of life, illness and death of the today’s man, and to establish a new paradigm men’s health in modern life.