Europe's men need their own health strategy

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 343, Issue 7834, 2011, Pages 1144-1147

  White, Alan ^a   McKee, Martin ^b   Richardson, Noel ^c   De Visser, Richard ^d   Madsen, Svend Aage ^e   De Sousa, Bruno C ^f   Hogston, Richard ^a   Zatoński, Witold ^g   Makara, Péter ^h  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Ireland   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^f INSTITUTO DE HIGIENE E MEDICINA TROPICAL   (Portugal)

^g INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^h SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MASCULINITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; WORK;

EUROPE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 82755192378     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d7397     Document Type: Review

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