Eyesight survey

07/10/14 . Partners

A new survey is trying to look at the impact of colour-blindness on everyday life.

Colour blindness affects about one in 10 men and one in 200 women. That means it's 20 times more common in men.

People who are colour blind and people with normal eyesight are invited to join an online survey by University College London Medical School of the impact of being colour blind on quality of life. The survey is confidential and anonymous. It takes about 15 minutes, depending on how much you want to say. If you are interested, please click on this link: UCL colour blindness survey.

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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