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Symposium on Men & Long-Term Conditions

22/07/14 . Partners

'How can we best support men to self-manage?' - The Department of Health Sciences at the University of York, in partnership with the Men’s Health Forum presents a symposium on self-management support, bringing together experts and self-managing men. You can book your free tickets online now. 

The Men's Health Forum is supporting pioneering research into men and self-care, conducted by the Department of Health Sciences at the University of York. The Self-Man project has reviewed the published evidence on self-management support interventions, with the aim of creating recommendations and guidance for practitioners, as well as comparing effectiveness, accessibility and acceptability of the various interventions used. 

In September, a symposium will be held at the University of York to discuss the findings of this research, especially aimed at those involved in commissioning, designing or delivering self-management support to men living with long term conditions.

When & Where?

Thursday 4th September 2014, 10:00-15:00, 

King’s Manor, Central York

Confirmed Speakers include:

  • David Wilkins, Policy & Projects Officer, Men's Health Forum
  • Dr Paul Galdas, Chief Investigator, Self-Man project
  • Professor Ian Banks, President of the European Men's Health Forum

Main Objectives of the Symposium

  • disseminate knowledge on best practice for self-management support for men with long term conditions
  • provide guidance on whether (and how) current self-management support interventions need to be adapted to  be optimally effective in, accessible by, ​and acceptable to men with long term conditions
  • build links between academic research, health professionals, commissioners and community groups

Book Tickets and More Information

See the event programme for more information about the event.

Book tickets to the symposium here. 

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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