Description
This paper reports on qualitative research with 37 adult men (18-76 years) living in Brunei Darussalamand explores how masculinities and expectations about male roles across the life course influence men’s perceptions, of and attitudes towards health and health help seeking behaviour. Bruneian men gave accounts that consistently spoke of a series of masculine roles and associated attributes and behaviours, which mapped across the life course. Men described health and the steps that they had taken to protect their health in terms of responsibilities associated with being a breadwinner, provider of support for parents, role model and leader of the family. Whilst adherence to Bruneian norms about masculinity could obstruct men’s engagement with health help-seeking, the authors also found that men mobilised their understanding of Bruneian masculinity such that it provided aculturally legitimate way of engaging in health help-seeking