A Review Of Literature: The Aging Man

Introduction

Asia have a higher number of aging among male and this is will never stops. Men older than 65 years old in Asia is up to 14 % from 7% in the year of 2008. The number of aging men expected to be increased in Asian country. Aging in men will lead to more health issues and cause death faster which will contribute an increase value in morbidity and mortality. Health issues such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, sexual dysfunction and lower urinary tract symptoms are being more common in aging man which will be a warning sign of their health and affect their quality of life. It is proven from a Western data that men are mainly getting affected by cardiovascular disease, cancer and psychosocial health.

These health related illness will lead them to live an unhealthy life and seek for negative behaviour too. [6,7] Besides that, there is another leading reason to cause an increase in morbidity rate among men is their lifestyle. Different lifestyle such as smoking, consuming alcohol leads to serious illness too among men. In addition, different countries have different kind of health care services but overall we can said that men health is not given much priority due to some reasons. All the countries mainly in Asia health of men must be given equal priority as given to women and child to reduce the number of morbidity level which eventually will decrease the mortality rate too. These all gives a big impact on men health status and which was a main cause for aging too. That’s the reason men gets age much faster than female. The review is to understand the cause of the morbidity and mortality among men.

Morbidity Profile

Every year the number of birth (boys) have been increasing for few years in Asia but the life expectancy of men is shorter than women in most of the Asian countries. In Malaysia, men older than 70 years old is very less. The main reason is due to some disease such as cancers, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, lower urinary tract disease and others as well. In Malaysia, cardiovascular disease is the main reason or cause for death in men but in some other countries the cause for death in men is because of cancer. This kind of illness cause men to be aged faster and eventually lead to death.

Those disease is the major reason for male to be aged faster and to suffer from disease. The reason for them to get the disease is their lifestyle. Differences in lifestyle cause men to be highly risk. Lifestyle such as smoking, alcohol and obesity are the commonest risk factor for aging. Asia countries does not at the first rank when comes to number of smoking men but still have a higher rate where it ranges from (24% to 70%). Increase number in smoking can be major reason for all the health related issues which lead to aging and death. It is well known that Cancers are mainly cause due to smoking. The commonest cancer that affect Asia countries are cancer of head, neck, thorax and lung. In Asian countries men started to consume alcohol at very early age from 18 and the number of alcohol dependence keep arising from the year 1991 to 2002, where it rise from 4. 09% to 10. 22%.

Men are the pillars of the family so men works for long hours by ignoring their needs and sleep which also can lead to increase the number of morbidity. By doing minimal physical activity the number of morbidity can be reduce. In those day men works in land and do agricultural work where it is equal to physical activity. That’s the reason why those days people do not suffer from any chronic illness at early age. Now aging occur very early in men and cause disease because lack of physical activity. Nowadays men are working under air conditioned room and having an unhealthy diet which lead to chronic disease.

Summary

Each country have different health care services and their priorities is differ. Men and their health should given priorities to reduce the number of morbidity and mortality rate too. Most important thing, the cause of men death is health issue so by having good intervention it can be prevented. All the countries especially Asia countries should prioritize men health issue because it has a great impact on the morbidity and mortality rate. By reducing the rate of morbidity, it also helps to lessen the number of aging male.