Why men die before their wives.




The question has always been asked on why there are more widows than widowers in most neighbhourhoods. Why is it that women have higher chances of surviving their husbands. What is that thing that kills the man ahead of his wife?


A man wants to call the shots in everything he is involved in; politics, religion, business, sports. But as much as he rules these worlds, when it comes to his health, man seems to have a far lower sense of judgment in what makes him healthy or unhealthy.


Why would a man want to avoid going to the hospital when it holds the aces to his productivity in other areas of his life?


A short research in the course of writing this piece reemphasised the obvious about men’s attitude towards clinic matters.

It is well established that more men die earlier than women, but what is still confusing is why men are still perceived lackadaisical about their health?



A study by the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) in 2001 revealed that women are 33 per cent more likely than men to visit a doctor in general, expectedly, the gap narrows with increasing age.



With this in view, it is no surprise that men die at higher rate than women from the top 10 causes of death, according to a report by Men’s Health Network (MHN).



Those causes are heart disease, cancer, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, accidents, pneumonia and influenza, diabetes, suicide, kidney disease, and chronic liver disease and cirrhosis.

A survey

conducted by Saturday Tribune on whether men really visit the hospital for medical solutions revealed that hospital is about the last port of call for any kind of medical solutions for men.


Apart from unequipped hospitals in the country (which is a topic of discussion for another day) that some have advanced as one of the reasons many men do not consider hospital for health remedy, others are personal and correctable.



According to Dr Olawumi Adekola, men are exploratory; they are more aggressive and are likely to die from most of the physical causes of death like road accidents and drug abuse.



Though some researches favour men to die younger than women, it is noteworthy to say that this doesn’t cut across all societal settings.



Dr Adekola explained that “Developing countries like Nigeria, for instance, with the kind of health system available, there is likely to be more death

among women in reproductive age than men, and maternal mortality is one of the high causes of death in developing countries.




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