Courtenay’s (2000a) report titled “Behavioral Factors Associated with
Disease, Injury and Death among Men” lists more than thirty behaviors in
which men have greater involvement than women and that are known to lead
to health problems. These behaviors include smoking, bad diet, excess alcohol
consumption, and risk taking. However, as Courtenay points out in the
conclusion of his report, very little “is known about the psychosocial mechanisms
that mediate these behaviors” (p. 109).