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This literature review aims to offer elements to broaden discussion on the construction of male identity and its relation with mens health injuries. The health-disease process is also determined by the individuals behavior in society, thus understanding the construction of a male identity from cultural elements, can contribute for the reflection on the existing relation between man and his health. Researchers and public policy makers have not considered the socialization process as a factor that increases mens vulnerability. Nurses should get closer to men considering them as allied, partners and holders of a cultural inheritance that can offer (if creatively and wisely used) strategies to deconstruct negative aspects and rebuild or reinforce positive aspects of masculinity.