Educational actions for promoting man's health in primary care: integrative review

Abstract

The objective was to identify in the literature the educational actions used to promote men's health in primary health care. It is an integrative literature review. Searches were performed in the LILACS, PUBMED, MEDLINE, SCOPUS, SCIELO, BDENF and IBECS databases. Twenty-two articles were identified, and five articles were selected that fit the inclusion criteria, and which followed for content analysis. It was observed that there is little production of studies on the subject and that the education actions carried out with the male population are mostly focused on the sexual and urological aspects, and do not contemplate the integrality of men's health. It is considered that there is still a need to look at men's health in a comprehensive way, approaching different themes, especially considering the health indicators of this population pointed out in the National Men's Health Policy itself.