One man in five dies before the age of 65.
TOGETHER we can change that.

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Our Manifesto

In the UK, one man in five dies before he reaches 65. Together, we can change that.

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Men's Health Week

The annual Men’s Health Week is the week that ends in Fathers' Day. Get involved.

Global Action on Men's Health

The Men's Health Forum is a founder member of Global Action on Men's Health, a initiative aiming to tackle the poor health of men throughout the world.

Globally, men die five years earlier than women and are 50% more likely to die between the ages of 15 and 60.  In countries classified as ‘least developed’ and ‘less developed’ by the United Nations, adult mortality fell faster among women than among men between 1992 and 2012.  In every part of the world, men’s health outcomes are substantially worse than women’s, yet this inequality has received little national, regional or global attention from health policymakers or healthcare providers. 

Global Action on Men’s Health (GAMH) was launched at the start of Men's Health Week 2014 to address this inequality. GAMH is working to:

  • Encourage the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other international agencies involved in public health to develop research, policies and strategies on men’s health
  • Urge individual states and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to implement measures to tackle men’s health problems
  • Provide guidance on how to take effective action on men’s health
  • Focus primarily on public health and the social determinants of health

GAMH will act as a focal point for a new network of men’s health and other organisations around the world that support its aims and objectives and is currently backed by ten organisations: 

GAMH and its members fully support initiatives to improve women’s health and do not believe that resources currently allocated to women’s health should be transferred to men’s health.

Join GAMH

Organisations and individuals are encouraged to join GAMH. The fee for individual members is £40.00 (which covers membership for four years).

The Men’s Health Forum need your support

It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking.

In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to.

It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for.

We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing.

Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.

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  • The Men's Health Forum
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