Men have not been the focus of health monitoring and reporting in German-speaking Switzerland so far and are a largely neglected target group of governmental preventive efforts. Without good reason. Men have a substantial preventive potential regarding health, health behavior and use of health and medical services, as can be seen in the recently published global health report of the Canton Zurich. Men have a shorter life expectancy compared to women and a significantly higher mortality with regard to strongly behavior-related chronic diseases as well as fatal traffic accidents and suicides. Men also show comparably unfavourable health behavior and a reduced utilization of health services. The stronger, but also less healthy and less healthy behaving sex should increasingly be the focus of health reporting and health monitoring in the future.
Keywords: Canton of Zurich; Gesundheitsberichterstattung; Gesundheitsrisiken; Gesundheitsverhalten; Kanton Zürich; Männergesundheit; canton de Zürich; comportement sur le plan de la santé; health behavior; health reporting; health risks; information concernant la santé; men’s health; risques pour la santé; santé de l’homme.