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How are services to men affected by Covid-19?
16/04/20 .
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The Forum is investigating how services to men are being affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. All organisations providing services to men are asked to complete a short survey.
Forum CEO Martin Tod said:
Covid-19 is increasing the demand for some services, reducing the demand for others - and, in many cases, making it harder to deliver them.
We're keen to understand the impact of Covid-19 on organisations supporting men's health - whether they relate directly to Covid-19, or to the consequences of self-isolation, or whether they relate to other men's health issues - which remain no less urgent as a consequence of COVID-19.
Can you fill out this quick survey? We've tried to keep it to a minimum so that it's quick and easy to complete.
To support men's health during the current pandemic, we want to publicise the services that are out there so that men can find what they need more easily.
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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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