Europe's men need their own health strategy

Europe's men need their own health strategy.

1Centre for Men’s Health, Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds LS2 8NU, UK; 2London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK; 3Centre for Men’s Health, Institute of Technology Carlow, Carlow, Ireland; 4School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK; 5Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Cope...

Married women who work: their own and their children's health.

Estimates of the proportion of married women who are doing paid work outside their homes vary considerably; but, despite the difficulties of securing reliable figures, it seems safe to conclude that, in most parts of the United Kingdom, the proportion is much greater to-day than it was before the second world war. In the 1931 Census for England and Wales, for example, only 11 per cent. of the m...

Doctors do not adequately look after their own physical health.

Studies of doctors' health have emphasised psychological health, and limited data have been collected on their physical health status. Doctors often fail to follow current preventive health guidelines for their physical health. About half of doctors do not have an established relationship with an independent general practitioner. This would enhance their health and provide a means of ready acce...

"Women come here on their own when they need to": prenatal care, authoritative knowledge, and maternal health in Oaxaca.

Physiological and anatomical concepts about reproduction held by traditional midwives in Southern Oaxaca differ considerably from those of biomedicine. Government training courses for traditional midwives disregard these deep-seated differences, and also the underlying conceptual rationale of ethno-obstetrics. These courses constantly reinforce and actively promote the biomedical model of care....

Could we hold people responsible for their own adverse health?