Abstract
The state of men's health, internationally, is a deep public health concern. Despite pressure from the World Health Organisation that all health policy should consider the specific needs of both men and women through their push for 'gender mainstreaming', and increased interest in men's health, there have been relatively few gendered policy responses relating to men's health. In this article, we compare the men's health policy contexts in Australia, the UK and Ireland. We show that different advocacy groups have lobbied for men's health policies in these three jurisdictions and that different approaches have been adopted in order to advance or abandon men's health policy work. The absence of men's health policies or gender mainstreaming has severely limited the capacity to develop well-co-ordinated national programmes that meet the health needs of men and their families.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 427-440 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Critical Public Health |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 3-4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2009 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:James Smith would like to acknowledge the support of the Freemasons Foundation through the provision of the Trevor Prescott Memorial Award which supported a two-week study tour of the UK and Ireland in 2007 that led to the fruition of this paper.
Keywords
- Gender
- Healthy public policy
- Men's health
