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About Us
MHF is a charity that provides an independent and authoritative voice for male health in England and Wales and tackles the issues and inequalities affecting the health and well-being of men and boys.
MHF’s vision is a future in which all boys and men in England and Wales have an equal opportunity to attain the highest possible level of health and well-being.
We work to achieve this through:
• Policy development, research and lobbying
• Supporting other organisations and services to engage more effectively with boys and men on health issues
• Leading the annual National Men’s Health Week
• Publishing the award-winning range of mini manual health booklets for men
• Running the unique ‘consumer’ website for men - www.malehealth.co.uk
• Working with MPs and government
• Developing innovative and imaginative best practice projects
• Training service providers and others
• Collaborating with the widest possible range of interested organisations and individuals.
MHF was founded by the Royal College of Nursing in 1994 and became an independent charity in 2001. The Forum works across a number of health and related issues.
These include:
• Physical activity
• Cancer
• Workplace health
• Mental health
• Access to primary care.
Our work focuses particularly on those groups of men with the worst health and we are striving to ensure that we take account of the diversity of men and their needs.
Recent successes include our campaigns for a screening programme for abdominal aortic aneurysms in older men and for the National Chlamydia Screening Programme to target young men as well as women. As a direct result of our work, Department of Health policy on pharmacy now requires services to address the needs of men and national cancer policy also takes account of gender differences.
In 2009, we became a strategic partner of the Department of Health. This three-year programme will see us working alongside government to help the NHS and third sector organisations improve the health of men and boys.
The Men's Health Forum (England and Wales) is a registered charity (No 1087375).
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Inequality in the Health service
When I went on the NHS Choices Anger Management Page recently I was confronted with a mass of information aimed specifically at men; there was a woman psychologist doing a voiceover on her video about an angry man and every other article on the page was about, either explicitly or implicitly, male anger. I had to complain three times before they agreed to remove one article which dealt only with male anger, but the large centerpiece video dominating the title page remains. I asked twice for this to be removed and was bluntly refused on the basis that other pages in the section do deal with female anger. The ethos and style of the whole NHS Choices anger management section remains focused on male anger as if female anger doesn't exist. Please have a look at this page and let me know if you agree or disagree. Jack Rainbow
Nice Attempt !!
I have read your objectives and i appreciate the steps that you have taken for man's health. I am wishing your Every success.