Introduction

The Industrial Revolution, the advent of public health as a discipline, advances in medicine, and myriad social, economic, and health policy changes led to dramatic improvements in health across the world. In addition to these scholarly efforts, important policy initiatives have focused explicitly on improving men’s health in Australia, Brazil, Ireland, and elsewhere. Health equity has been defined as the absence of systematic disparities in health and the determinants of health, and the principle underlying a commitment to eliminate social determinants of health and disparities in health. Grounding men’s health equity in an intersectional approach illuminates the heterogeneity among men’s experiences, which are based on their unique, subjective identities and structural positions within systems of inequality and structural impediments. Men’s health equity is an intersectionality-based health equity lens that highlights that each group of men’s experiences are fundamentally different from that of others, based on their unique identity and structural position within systems of inequality and structural impediments.