Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 27:425–442, 2006 Copyright c  Taylor & Francis Group, LLC ISSN: 0161-2840 print / 1096-4673 online DOI: 10.1080/01612840600569682 ENVISIONING AND ADVANCING MARGINALIZED MEN’S HEALTH DISPARITIES SCHOLARSHIP: THE MARGINALITY-CULTURAL COMPETENCE INTEGRATIVE FRAMEWORK (M-CCIF) Danny G. Willis, DNS, RN Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA Demetrius J. Porche, DNS, RN, CS, FNP Louisiana State University, Louisiana, USA Given the current focus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on eliminating health disparities among minority populations, a substantive body of culturally competent scholarship about marginalized men’s health disparities is needed to add knowledge about the complex features, processes, and relationships underlying health disparities, marginality, men’s health, interventions, and clinical outcomes. Marginalized men in the United States suffer disproportionately from mental and chronic health problems. Historically disadvantaged, their voices have not been privileged in health care and clinical discourses. Utilizing the concepts of marginalization and culturally competent scholarship, an integrative framework has been created to facilitate clinicians and scholars in envisioning and advancing critical scholarship related to marginalized men’s health disparities. A recent focus at the national level in health services, mental health, and nursing research is on eliminating health disparities. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has defined health disparities as “differences The authors thank Joanne M. Hall, PhD, FAAN, for her comments and insight during prepa- ration of the manuscript. Address correspondence to Danny G. Willis, Boston College, William F. Connell School of Nursing, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. E-mail: danny.willis@bc.edu 425