Promoting Men's Health
Developing Practice

Addresses the most pressing needs of health professionals working around health issues with men.

Part 3; Guidelines for practice draws together the key themes which emerge form Part 2 and how these can be used to devise and deliver successful interventions.

PART I: MEN AND HEALTH: THE CONTEXT FOR PRACTICE * Inequalities in men's health * Commissioning and men: the case of STDs * PART II: DEVELOPING PRACTICE * Men's health: what should health promotion units do? * The development of men's health in Australia * It Takes Two: a contraceptive campaign aimed at men * Developing resources * Psychosexual counselling * The new men's media * Self-help groups * A community health approach to men's health * Promoting weight loss in men aged 40-45: the Keeping It Up campaign * Alive and Kicking: using sport to improve men's health * Primary care * Well man clinics * Addressing skin cancer prevention with outdoor workers * Health care for male prisoners * Promoting black men's health * Sex education for young men * Gay and bisexual men's general health * Testicular cancer: no laughing matter * A suicide prevention strategy for young men * PART III: GUIDELINES FOR PRACTICE * Guidelines for practice * Appendix 1: Further reading and resources * Appendix 2: Alive and Kicking task sheets