Men's preconception health and the social determinants of health: What are we missing?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Life course perspectives suggest that optimizing men's health before conception is requisite to equitably improve population health, an area of increasing public health focus. Although scholarship on the social determinants of health (SDOH) suggests that men's health and health behaviors do not occur in a vacuum, preconception health studies have not explicitly examined how these factors influence men's preconception health.

Objective

To identify latent classes of men's preconception health and the role of the SDOHs in predicting class membership.

Methods

Pooled data from the 2011-2019 male file of the National Survey of Family Growth were analyzed (n = 10,223). Latent class analysis (LCA) was used to identify distinct classes of men's preconception

SUBMITTER: Anakwe A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9580700 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature