Shedding light on men: The Building Healthy Men Project

Journal of Men's Health

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 233-240

  Fildes, Dave ^a   Cass, Yona ^b   Wallner, Frank ^c   Owen, Alan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b Western Sydney Area Health Service   (Australia)

^c Healthy Cities Illawarra   (Australia)

Author keywords

Health promotion; Mens Health; Mental health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUILDING HEALTHY MEN PROJECT; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEN'S HEALTH; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL NETWORK; WELLBEING;

EID: 84866565172     PISSN: 18756867     EISSN: 18756859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jomh.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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