MHF Magazine

This magazine ceased publication in 2006. Back numbers are made available here as a service to the men's health policy community.

MHF magazine was the quarterly news publication from the Men's Health Forum.

Aimed at politicians, policymakers, health professionals — in fact, anyone with an interest in improving men's health, the magazine was packed with news and information about men's health developments and the work of the Men's Health Forum alongside a mix of features, interviews, and articles from key players in the field. It ran for 11 issues from November 2003 until its funding came to an end in June 2006.

Every issue of the magazine is now available to download. To keep file size small, these PDFs are low-resolution and for personal use only. If you want to use them in any other way please contact the Forum. 

Edited by health and social affairs journalist Lynn Eaton, MHF was designed by Manchester based company Anytime after Nine and supported by an unconditional educational grant from Roche Products Ltd.

TAKING SIDES

One of the regular features of MHF Magazine was the TAKING SIDES DEBATES which were started in the magazine and continued here online. You can follow some of them here:

• E.D. DRUGS: Have drugs like Viagra been good for men's health? Read the expert opinions and give your comments here.
• SEX STEREOTYPES: Should sex stereotypes be used to promote health messages? Of course, says Victoria Rae from the  Institute of Cancer Research. No, they're by definition unhealthy, says Dr Alex Scott-Samuel, Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Liverpool. Click here to take sides on sex stereotypes.
• OBESITY: Pretty much everyone tells pretty much everyone else that being fat is bad for them. But is that really a medical fact or merely a social convention? Lee Monaghan, a sociologist at Newcastle University, argues that you can be fat and healthy. GP Dr David Haslam of the National Obesity Forum disagrees. Click here to take sides on the facts about fat. 
• CIRCUMCISION: The most controversial recent debate was on male circumcision.  Click here to follow that debate .

Issues of MHF

Issue 11  June 2006

• Men's health Week 2006
• MHF stress at work survey 
• Interview with mental health tsar Professor Lewis Appleby
• Group therapy    
• Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM)

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Issue 10  March 2006

• Trusts failing on gender duty
• MHF response to Our Care, Our health, Our Say white paper.
• Interview with Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt
• Taking sides: Has Viagra helped men's health?    
• Social marketing

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Issue 9  January 2006

• Domino effect: reaching the African-Caribbean male 
• Interview with Surinder Sharma, director for equality and human rights, Department of Health
• Taking sides: should sex stereotypes be used to promote health messages?    
• BT WorkFit

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Issue 8  October 2005

• Men's Health Week 2005 review and 2006 preview 
• Going for bloke - Interview with Graham Archard of the Royal College of GPs on attracting male patients
• Taking sides: should 'lads' magazines provide health information?  
• Hot topic: dealing with trauma
• In practice: Knowsley Man and Knowlsey malehealth.

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Issue 7  June 2005

• Men's Health Week 2005 issue
• Fat is not just a women's issue
• Interview with deputy chief medical officer Dr Fiona Adshead
• TAKING SIDES DEBATE: can being fat be good for you?  
• Hot topic: men's slimming clubs
• In practice: Tommy the trucker - a healthy-eating scheme in Sefton

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Issue 6  March 2005

• Chlamydia research: chalmydia screening for young men is essential 
• Vote winners: pre-election survey of the parties' views on men's health  
• Pharmacies could offer advice
• In practice: walk-in health centre for imates at full-Sutton high-security prison
• Hot topic: male friendly surgeries

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Issue 5  January 2005

• Public Health White Paper verdict
• Interview with Health Secretary John Reid
• 2005: the year to tackle obesity 
• TAKING SIDES DEBATE: Are Well Man clinics a good idea?  
• Hot topic: suicide 
• In practice: a school football team's juice bar!

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Issue 4  October 2004

• Screening for AAA
• Interview with DH patients' tsar Harry Cayton
• Men's Health Weeks 2004 and 2005
• TAKING SIDES DEBATE: Is male circumcision acceptable?  
• In Practice: Braunstone's Beer Belly Busters club
• What do men call their penises?

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Issue 3  June 2004

• Special CANCER issue for men's Health Week 
• Interview with cancer tsar Mike Richards
• TAKING SIDES DEBATE: Should men check their balls?
• Martin Ledwick, Cancer BACUP senior information nurse 
• In Practice: testicular cancer

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 Issue 2  Mar. 2004

• Special OBESITY issue
• 60% of male MP's overweight
• Dr Ian Campbell, chair of the National Obesity Forum.
• Siân Griffiths, Faculty of Public Health president, says health messages must acknowledge gender differences
• In Practice: Bradford's Health of Men project

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Issue 1 Nov. 2003

• Gender sensitive health policies
• Interview with David Hinchcliffe MP - Chair of the House of Commons Health Select Committee
• Sex survey of soldiers in Germany
• Anna Coote of the King's Fund on the gender summit

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Update

MHF replaces the old Update newsletter. However, you can still download back numbers of Update here. Click on image to download PDF copy.

   

Past issues: April 2001, May 2000