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.

Mini Manual Sources: Woman

Sources used in the Woman publication

The MHF is committed to fully participating in NHS England’s Information Standard Scheme for health and social care information. We intend to comply with all aspects and requirements of the Scheme Standard.

A list of sources for the Woman Mini Manual (both the 2015 original and the new edition for 2019) follows:

Coronary Heart Disease: 

Coronary Heart Disease and lifestyle (box – heart warming facts): 

Oestrogen and Coronary heart disease: 

Hearts own blood: (description of the heart, angina and heart attack)

‘Classic’ symptoms of a heart attack:

Women’s experience of a heart attack: 

What goes wrong: Atherosclerosis: 

What causes it?:

Lipoproteins: 

Lowering lipoproteins: 

Fat chance:

Trans fats (including box):

Breast cancer Introduction:

Treatment:

Box:

Breast cancer and men:

What to look out for:

Box: lumps and X-rays: 

NHS screening:

Causes:

Box – OPERA: 

Genes:

Other risk factors:

Main types of breast cancer:

Breast screening:

Treating breast cancer:

Targeting, trastuzumab:

Reconstructive surgery: 

Ovarian cancer: 

Risk factors:

What to look out for: 

Causes of ovarian cancer:

Box - That’s NICE:

Diagnosing ovarian cancer:

Best treatment:

Box – getting personal:

Cervical cancer:

Out of sight, out of mind?:

Screening:

What goes wrong:

Box - Increasing the risk:

Screening:

Treating cervical cancer:

Box - Get protected, HPV vaccination:

In 2019, we added additional material on:

Eating disorders

Food allergies

Menopause

Sex, contraception and infections

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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