Men’s Health: Time for a Policy Response
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This special launch issue of the International Journal of Men’s Social and Community Health (IJMSCH) focuses on the role of policy in the achievement of improved outcomes in the health and well-being of men and boys. As far as possible taking a global perspective, this issue aims to analyse existing national men’s health policies, other areas of policy that impact on the health of men and boys and the role of NGOs in improving men’s and boys’ health and other relevant issues.
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Baker, P., & Brown, A. (2018). Men’s Health: Time for a Policy Response. International Journal of Mens Social and Community Health, 1(SP1), e1-e5. https://doi.org/10.22374/ijmsch.v1iSP1.10
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5. Gonzales G, Przedworski J, Henning-Smith C. Comparison of health and health risk factors between lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults and heterosexual adults in the United States. Results from the National Health Interview Survey. JAMA Intern Med 2016;176(9):1344–51. doi:10.1001/ jamainternmed.2016.3432
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8. Baker P, Shand T. Men’s health: time for a new approach to policy and practice? J Global Health
2017;7(1):010306. doi:10.7189/jogh.07.010306.
9. Blum RW, et al. It begins at 10: How gender
expectations shape early adolescence around the world. J Adolesc Health 2017;61(4):S3–S4.
10. Sloan C, Conner M, Gough B. How does masculinity impact on health? a quantitative study of masculinity and health behavior in a sample of UK men and women. Psychol Men Masculin 2015;16(2):206–17.
11. Robertson S, Bagnall A, Walker M. Evidence for a gender-based approach to mental health programmes: Identifying the key considerations associated with ‘being male’: An Evidence Check review brokered by the Sax Institute (www.saxinstitute.org.au) for the Movember Foundation; 2014.
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13. O’Brien R, Hunt K, Hart G. ‘It’s caveman stuff, but that is to a certain extent how guys still operate’: men’s accounts of masculinity and help seeking, Soc Sci Med 2005;61:503–16.
14. UCL Institute of Health Equity. Review of social de-terminants and the health divide in the WHO European Region: final report. Copenhagen: WHO Europe;2014.
15. UCL Institute of Health Equity. Marmot Indicators 2014: A preliminary summary with graphs. London: UCL Institute of Health Equity; 2014.
16. Baker P, Dworkin SL, Tong S, et al. The men’s health gap: men must be included in the global health equity agenda. Bull World Health Org 2014;92:618–20.
17. Hawkes S, Buse K. Gender and global health: evidence, policy, and inconvenient truths. Lancet 2013;381(9879): 1783–7. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)60253-6.
18. Hawkes S, Buse K, Kapilashrami A. Gender blind? An analysis of global public-private partnerships for health. Globaliz Health 2017;13:26. doi.org/ 10.1186/ s12992-017-0249-1.
19. Global Health 50/50. The Global Health 50/50 Report: How gender-responsive are the world’s most influential global health organisations? London, UK; 2018.
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