The Good JSNAs

LONDON BOROUGH OF HILLINGDON

Hillingdon has one of the best JSNAs as regards gender-disaggregated data and men’s health. It has 29 gendered measures (71% of its JSNA’s measures are gendered). The online JSNA is easy to use, has a clear format and the information is easily accessible. The JSNA covers issues often left out by other local authorities, most notably service-use and mental illness.

BOLTON METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL

This JSNA contains 26 gendered measures (65% of its measures). It contains various information on all categories including gendered data on GP visits. NHS Bolton conducted its own Health and Wellbeing Survey. This has enabled the JSNA to contain a significant amount of data concerning men’s lifestyle behaviour and disease prevalence.

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

Hampshire has 27 gendered measures included as part of its JSNA (54% of its measures). Their online JSNA is clearly formatted with individual topics for each category. The County Council also provides a condensed version of the JSNA.

WIRRAL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL

Wirral’s JSNA contains 23 gendered measures (52% of its measures). Once again it has a clear format with individual web pages and documents for various categories. Wirral makes full use of the local data available to include male health priorities including a fair QOF allocation by gender.

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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