Share it for Phil

11/05/16 . News

If you share just one health story this week, please share this one.

Three months ago we published Phil: I thought I had a bad back – an interview with a friend of mine who had been diagnosed with bowel cancer. The message that Phil really wanted to get over could be summarised in four words: see your bloody GP. At the end of April he died. Let's remember Phil by helping get his message over to other men.

His powerful article has been shared thousands of times already – please share it among your personal and professional networks. Here's the link:

https://www.menshealthforum.org.uk/phil-i-thought-i-had-bad-back

Jim Pollard, website editor

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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