Men's Health
EDM number 1138 in 2010-12, proposed by Marsha Singh on 06/12/2010.
Categorised under the topic of Health education and preventive medicine.
That this House welcomes the Men's Health Forum's report Lives Too Short - the State of Men's Health; notes that 22 per cent. of men in England and Wales die before the age of 65 years and 42 per cent. before 75 years, that in Kensington and Chelsea men's life expectancy is nearly 11 years longer than in Blackpool, that 76 per cent. of people who kill themselves are men and that men are 70 per cent. more likely to get a cancer that affects both men and women; and calls for health providers to improve men's use of services and for mental health provision and public health policy to tackle men's poor health.
This motion has been signed by a total of 34 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
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