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European men's health think-tank closes

The European Men's Health Development Foundation was formally wound up and dissolved on 29 January 2009.

Launched in March 2000, the Foundation acted as an independent think tank, working within an anti-discriminatory framework and through partnerships across Europe, to identify evidence-based policy and programmes for improving the health of boys and men across Europe.

The Foundation produced the following resources for all involved in gender and health work:

  • 'Gender and Health in the UK' Evidence Review Article Series
  • Sweeting H - 'Measurement and definitions of obesity in childhood and adolescence: a field guide for the uninitiated', Nutrition Journal 2007; 6:32)
  • Sweeting H - 'Gendered dimensions of obesity in childhood and adolescence', Nutrition Journal 2008; 7:1
  • Payne, S, Swami, V & Stanistreet, D 'The social construction of gender and its influence on suicide: a review of the literature, Journal of Men's Health and Gender, 5 (1), (pp. 23-35), 2008.

    ISSN: 096-113199

  • Swami, V, Stanistreet, D & Payne, S. 'Masculinities and suicide', The Psychologist, 21 (4), (pp. 308-311), 2008.
  • ISSN: 0952-8229-113197

  • Payne, S. 'Not an equal opportunity disease - a sex and gender-based review of colorectal cancer in men and women: Part 1', The Journal of Men's Health & Gender, 4(2), (pp. 131-139), 2007.
  • ISSN: 1571-8913-110088

  • Payne, S. 'Not an equal opportunity disease - a sex and gender-based review of colorectal cancer in men: Part II', The Journal of Men's Health and Gender, 4(3), (pp. 251-256), 2007.
  • ISSN: 1571-8913-113200

  • Emslie C, Hunt K. Men, masculinities and heart disease: a systematic review of the qualitative literature. Current Sociology (in press).

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