Recent Media Coverage
MHIRC In The News Media
A selection of recent media coverage on topics around men's health:
Life lessons: better education for boys means good health for life (opens in a new window) (The Conversation, 8 November 2011)
The success or failure of boys' education clearly impacts heavily on other aspects of life that add up to being healthy and finding better ways to engage boys in their education really is important.
What makes a man healthy in 2011? (opens in a new window) (Aust. Healthcare & Hospitals Assn), 19 September 2011)It looks like a question with an easy answer but research has highlighted just how complex the issue of men’s health can be. Making it complicated is the fact that many factors feed into a man’s life to make a man healthy or otherwise.
To improve men's health, treat the cause, not the illness (opens in a new window) (The Conversation, 15 August 2011)Whichever way you look at it, men’s health in Australia is uniformly worse than women’s. Men die, on average, five years earlier than women born at the same time and are likely to experience more health complaints throughout their life.
Suicide 'a neglected gender issue' (opens in a new window) (ABC News, June 15 2011)
A leading men's health researcher says a more gender specific approach is needed to help reduce suicide figures across Australia. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), on average five men and one woman commit suicide each day in Australia.
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