The international men's health movement

doi:10.1136/bmj.323.7320.1014

BMJ 2001;323:1014-1015 ( 3 November )

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The international men's health movement

Has grown to the stage that it can start to influence international bodies

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Men's health is emerging as an important issue in an increasing number of countries around the world, notably the United Kingdom,Austria, Switzerland, Australia, and the United States. Thereis also increasing interest in working with men on sexual andreproductive health issues in parts of Central and South America,Africa, and Asia. However, progress towards international contactand collaboration between men's health advocates with an interestthat extends beyond traditional clinical concerns such as erectiledysfunction or prostate cancer has so far been extremelyslow.

In many ways this is not surprising. The idea that men have specific health needs, experiences, and concerns related to theirgender as well as their biological sex is relatively new $---$ certainlymuch newer than the concept of "women's health."¹ The psychosocialaspects of male health are still not accepted, or even understood,by many health practitioners and policymakers. Moreover, evenin those countries . . . [Full text of this article]

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