Healthcare organizations and consumers alike have turned to a more expansive approach combining traditional services with holistic and preventive health approaches to solve population and individual health issues.

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Men currently face a multitude of preventable health issues that can be partly attributed to healthcare inequalities, their lifestyle behaviors, and attitude towards medical care.

• Men are living around five years less than women, on average. They are more likely to die from nine of the ten leading causes of death in the U.S. [1]​​

• Black and Hispanic men have higher rates of fatal chronic conditions and shorter average life expectancies than their white counterparts [2]

• 60% of men do not see a doctor regularly [3]

• Males account for the majority (78%) of fatal injury costs ($166.7 billion) and nonfatal injury costs (63%; $287.5 billion) [4]

• Men are almost 4x more likely to die from suicide than women[5] and LGBTQIA+ youth are 3x more likely to attempt suicide at some point in their life [6]

• Gay men have higher prevalence rates of mood disorder (42.3% vs. 19.8%) and of any anxiety disorder (41.2% vs. 18.6%) than heterosexual men [7]

• Men are more likely to suffer from the following chronic medical conditions: high blood pressure, diabetes, cancer, and heart disease [8]

• 90% of men in the U.S. want to take charge of their own health [9]