“‘Health for All’ became the slogan for a movement. It was not just an ideal but an organizing principle: Everybody needs and is entitled to the highest possible standard of health.” — Former WHO Director General Lee Jong-wook

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LIFESPAN GENDER GAP

Strategies and Solutions

  • Observe International Men’s Health Week, celebrated every year in June.
  • 10 Policy Steps:
    1. Collect, analyze, and publish wide-ranging and regularly updated data on men’s health to provide a guide to where action is needed and to its impact and effectiveness.
    2. Engage senior decision-makers, including politicians, to achieve faster and more significant progress.
    3. Listen to men’s voices to understand better what their needs are and how best to meet them.
    4. Introduce men’s health policies that address their health needs and integrate men’s health into other health policies, all with clearly identified and realistic deliverables.
    5. Develop outreach services that engage men ‘where they are’, such as local communities, sports venues, faith organisations, or online.
    6. Recognise the differences between men and focus attention on those groups facing multiple layers of disadvantage and who experience the worst health outcomes.
    7. Take account of gender norms by using appropriate ‘male’ interests and language to engage men in health.
    8. Ensure that the needs of boys and young men are reflected in the development and delivery of health policies and services.
    9. Use International Men’s Health Week, observed the second week in June, and other health weeks and days as opportunities to promote men’s health.
    10. Take a ‘male-positive’ approach which builds on men’s strengths and is more likely to engage men and achieve changes in their health practices and the use of services.

SUICIDE

Strategies and Solutions

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EXTREME WEATHER DEATHS

  • Weather-related mortality in the United States:
  • Global:
    • Men are more likely than women to die during famine.

Strategies and Solutions

  • Correct falsehoods such as this statement from a UN Women Fact Sheet: Females experience “increased morbidity and mortality due to heat waves, floods, storms, fires, and droughts” — a claim that is not supported by the extensive research conducted around the world.

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