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The male genre and health care: the experience of men at a health center

The aim was to understand how the men of a Health Center behave concerning health care. Qualitative study in a Center for School Health that selected by convenience and interviewed 15 individuals that were adults of male gender and the data organized according to the Discourse of the Collective Subject. Four central ideas emerged that portray the reasons for seeking the service, health problems, attitudes towards these issues and participation in the activities of the unit. These individuals are assiduous, care to follow the advice received and used the individual attention, preferably, for lack of time, but show an interest in participating in group activities. This should be used by the services as an opportunity to enhance their participation in specific groups that are already existing for men, offering a welcome space and offer listening to several problems, being a form of reintegration of these individuals with the health service.

Men's Health; Health Centers; Nursing; Delivery of Health Care


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