Ireland was the first country in the world to adopt a National Men’s Health Policy, and there were three underlying factors behind the rationale to develop this.
Firstly, there were particular concerns about differences in health outcomes between males and females, and between different groups of males. This led to a call for a specific policy focus on men’s health in Ireland’s National Health Strategy in 2001.
Secondly, there was a recognition of the need to develop a gendered approach to men’s health in order to more effectively engage men in services and programmes.
Thirdly, concerns within wider grass roots men’s health organisations about the state of men’s health, and the health status of specific population groups of men, contributed bottom-up momentum to policy development (Health Service Executive, 2016).
The Men’s Health Forum in Ireland recently launched three publications titled ‘Men’s Health in Numbers’. These tell you everything that you ever wanted to know about the facts and figures on men’s health on the island of Ireland. Download the reports at: https://www.mhfi.org/news/1096-men-s-health-in-numbers.html
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