Promoting Men's Health

Prelims: Foreword, Contents and Introduction
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Many men's health problems in Australia are preventable. They are broad public health issues such as lifestyle, health-risk behaviour and poor health care service utilisation. Improving men's health in Australia depends on a number of prerequisites.
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This chapter will explore Australian masculinity and machismo and its effects upon men's health and behaviours. Machismo will also be discussed as a barrier to health promotion in men...
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Because the prevailing social context sets the scene for lifestyle patterns, an examination of the changing social context of the Northern Territory provides crucial indicators for the social living and health issues confronting male Territorians...
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This chapter aims to shed light on the relationship between masculine cultures and health behaviour patterns as well as to identify social norms that have impeded improvements in men's health status...
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The aim of this chapter is to provide the reader with an overview of alcohol and other drug use in Australia, and to present the relationship alcohol and other drug use has to men's health...
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This chapter will focus on primary health care and the benefits it brings to the Australian community and particularly to men within that community...
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At present in Australia, men are obviously much less healthy than women in terms of both mortality and morbidity. At the same time, some aspects of men's health are improving due to social and cultural change..
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This chapter will examine older Australian men, gender variations in ageing, the indicators of successful ageing and look at the implications for health and community professionals...
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This chapter will explore the friction that exists between traditional masculine roles and the need to expand those roles in order to maximise the health status of the family...
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This chapter discusses the current status, role and function of men as fathers. It also presents the point of view of health professionals and fathers...
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This chapter discusses how the transition into parenthood is very different for men and women...
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This chapter highlights the need to develop a body of knowledge about men's health that goes beyond the mainstream concerns of physical wellbeing...
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This chapter discusses the choices and issues and implications surrounding male sterilisation in the form of vasectomy...
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This chapter provides a first-hand account of a man suffering from prostate cancer. It relates his story from when he was first diagnosed, his treatment and his recovery...
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This chapter relates the story of a young man who suffered from testicular cancer...
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This chapter follows a man living with HIV/AIDS. In a highly personal manner, it describes in detail all elements of dealing with the virus and delves into working and socialising with HIV/AIDS...
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End Matter: Index
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