Health services are still not effectively engaging with men. Especially during working age, men remain less likely to:
Four in five suicides are male but only a minority of these men were engaged with mental health services.
67% of men are overweight or obese yet only 10-20% of those on NHS weightloss programmes are men.
Research has suggested a link between men’s lower use of primary care and their higher rate of hospital services.
71% of CVD-related deaths under 65 are amongst men14 and the NHS Health Check programme focuses on circulatory conditions, a major killer of men, yet only 35% of local authorities know how many men they reach with the programme,15 and within those authorities only 44% of health checks are conducted amongst men.
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