Nel 2025, le donne di età compresa tra 15 e 24 anni avevano una probabilità tre volte maggiore di riferire di salute cattiva o pessima rispetto ai maschi della stessa età
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di NanorH
Nel 2025, le donne di età compresa tra 15 e 24 anni avevano una probabilità tre volte maggiore di riferire di salute cattiva o pessima rispetto ai maschi della stessa età
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di NanorH
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**Key Findings**
* Among young adults (aged 15 to 24 years), females at 4.4% were three times as likely as males (1.4%) to report bad or very bad health in 2025.
* Younger respondents reported higher rates of poor general mental health. Females aged 15 to 24 years had the highest prevalence, with one in eight (12.8%) rating their mental health as bad or very bad.
* Among 15 to 24 year olds in 2025, 7.7% of males received a diagnosis of autism compared with 4.5% of females.
* In 2025, the highest rate of obesity was among those aged 55 to 64 years with 30.6% of females and 29.3% of males in this age group being classified as such.
* Adults aged 55 to 64 years were the most likely to drink alcohol at least once a week at 50.1%. Young adults aged 15 to 24 years were the least likely to drink alcohol weekly at 24.1%.
* Males were more likely to be daily smokers of tobacco than females. Almost a quarter (24.0%) of males aged 35 to 44 years were daily smokers of tobacco in 2025, the highest rate of any age group.
* One third (32.5%) of females aged 15 to 24 years who used social media reported it had a negative impact on their mental health compared with 24.9% of males the same age.
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ihsmr/irishhealthsurvey-mainresults2025/keyfindings/
“Self-reported”
If there is a difference between two genders I can’t imagine the results when they try to compare between EU countries.
In my (admittedly limited) experience, women tend to have substantially higher rates of their own reproductive system trying to ruin their life, but men tend to have higher rates of being unwilling/unable to express when they’re suffering. These figures are probably a combination of both.
In general, women’s reproductive organs want them to feel as terrible as possible at all times.
Seems like they should get off their phones and do more smoking and drinking like the fellas
Lads don’t go to the doctor
Women are more likely to get autoimmune diseases and certain types of arthritis, and a lot of men won’t talk or go to a doctor
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1.4 and 4.4% are still very small numbers and a lot of it may be in the reporting. Women tend to be much, much better at actually discussing issues. Men are getting slightly better at it but I would say are far, far more likely to say “I’m grand” and change the subject when they do have issues.
The reality that reproductive systems aren’t equally burdensome and can tend to put a % of women through misery and isn’t something you can just dismiss or brush aside. I know I spent many an evening sitting on the couch with my ex, doing hours of massages, back rubs, heating pads, essential oils, making cups of tea, running hot baths and all of that to get through horrendous cramping issues that used to happen every month and doctors she went to (male and female) were often very dismissive and patronising or tended to try to push it to stress type explanations that turned out to be b/s. Guys really don’t go through anything like that. That repeated maybe 50% of months and she just got no where with most doctors until she really blew up at one and pushed for a referral to someone who knew what they were talking about.
All I can say is as a guy it was eye opening as we just don’t experience anything like that, and also disappointing to see just how useless some GPs can be. Still some really dismissive attitudes.
This isn’t big news. Men are massively less likely to go to the doctors. We spend our lives being told to “man up” etc and were expected to just get on with things. So we do. It’s a massive issue we need to get better about.
And it’s not a “don’t express themselves” issue that people keep using as a lazy excuse. One of the biggest influences is we are exposed to the “walk it off” phrase so much when growing up. Then you get how many men are self employed or sub contracted or in work where time off is unpaid. Culturally time off to go to a doctor or get medical help requires us to have done something pretty bad. The worrying thing for me is the age group. Because it means we’re still bringing boys up with that type of mentality. (I’m hoping younger generations of men will get much better at prioritising their health and also at complaining when they don’t get the health care they need – us older men are rubbish at both).
Smoking rate is higher than what I would’ve thought for men
These figures don’t prove males have better mental health or that women have worse mental health and it’s important for those who actually read the headline to understand this. It’s typically only that young women report worse mental health more often in surveys. Men are generally less likely to openly report psychological distress and may instead show it through higher rates of smoking, substance abuse, risk taking, isolation, or suicide. The data suggests a difference in how mental health is experienced and expressed, not a simple “women worse, men fine” conclusion.
This is not dismissing anyone’s experience, just pointing out the nuance.
Not being believed and gaslighted by medical professionals could contribute to this. For example by the time a woman is listened to endometriosis may have spread so much that health deteriorates, the average being 10 years!
I’m not that surprised. One of the biggest causes of disability in younger people is migraine, which affects 3 times more women than men after puberty.
Honestly surprised men smoke more than women in that age range.
Women’s health care in ireland is really dependent on which GP you see. It’s not fair.
when I said I was barely sleeping and struggling with severe PMS symptoms and that my cramps were making it difficult to do anything (eg can’t drive with the pain sometimes because its that intense) and I wanted to see a gynaecologist/endocrinologist/get proper pain relief the GP said ‘I’m not sure we’re there yet’. This was after paying 400€ for a private hormone test which flagged potential endometriosis and PCOS. I also did not get any painkillers and still end up in bed for a day with severe cramps. I tried to get into work the last time and almost fainted on the Luas from the pain because I couldn’t find an available seat.
Still went into work that day, mainly because I couldn’t cope with trying to get home on public transport in that level of pain and a desk was a better option.
My boyfriend on the other hand was prescribed Valium for muscle inflammation at night, and strong prescription painkillers for the daytime, when he had foot pain sometimes disrupting his sleep at night because of a strained muscle by his ankle that was inflamed. He could still walk and play sports.
As a side note: I can’t remember any time where I’ve gone to this GP for anything other than normal routine checkins every few months as I have a repeat prescription that I have to pop in to review every 3-6 months. It was the first time I booked and specifically went in for something that was causing me discomfort or concern.
duh. we needed a study for this? Males for decades if not centuries downplay health
It’s pretty shocking to me, given that I’ve seen figures of around 10% total, that a 1/4 of men between 35 to 44, and 1/8 of women in that demographic smoke daily. I could totally expect it 25 to 34, but I would’ve thought by mid 30s people would’ve tapped out of the habit. I wonder, as someone a couple years below this age group, if worsening mental health and a broad tenuous uncertain feeling among “millennials” (for want of a better term), is leading to this. Also, even thought it’s more a teen to mid 20s thing, I would’ve thought vaping would’ve significantly eaten into this number.
That being said, although I gave up a few years back, I am completely against banning cigarettes outright for any age demographic. Massive overreach from a government pulling out a crutch (a very unhealthy one, admittedly) from under people who are struggling in their lives. Typical third way nonsense.
The country’s obesity rates are at around 25% of the total population, could this rate be higher in this specific group, leading to increased bad health?
Every woman I know including myself has been a victim of medical negligence since childhood.
Both sexes are deluded as 1/3 are obese.
my bowel wants me dead chronic ibs coupled with asd and adhd and histamine intolerance and a severe dysbiosis
As a man who went through that age range, I can say I was either not self aware of bad health issues because I never went to the doctor and viewed myself as indestructible, or I never experienced bad health. Definitely suffered on the mental health front but also never sought help, and if a group was polling for an infographic, I would have told them I was aight.