My role
My role
The Forum is behind a new overview of Men's Health in Britain today.
Last year, Dr Alan White, the chair of the Men's Health Forum was asked to produce an overview of men's health for the Minister of Public Health, with priority areas identified and recommendations made for policy and research. The result was a concise but comprehensive overview of the state of men's health in Britain today. The Department of Health has now given us permission to publish much of that study. If you want a summary of the key issues in men's health in just 25 pages, this is it.
The Scoping Study on Men's Health includes:
Men's access to health services
Men's seeming lack of awareness of their health needs
Men's seeming inability to express emotions
Men's lack of social networks
Specific health concerns:
Prostate
Suicide
Testicular cancer
Coronary Heart Disease
Men's lifestyles issues
Smoking/alcohol/drugs
Accidents / Risk taking
Sexual health and HIV
Issues relating to special groups of men:
Men with disabilities
Men who have been to prison
Men who sleep rough
Men who have sex with men
Men from the immigrant and ethnic minorities
Men who are in, or have been in the armed services
Men as fathers