NH Men's Commission Fact #3: Men and Mortality Rates

Submitted by Scott on Thu, 2007-02-08 05:40

In accordance with our grassroots awareness campaign, here is another fact from the NH Commission on the Status of Men's (CSM) first biennial report:

FACT 3: Men die at a significantly higher rate from all common causes of death investigated in a 2002 study by the Endowment for Health. This includes:

  • Cancer
  • Diabetes
  • Heart Disease
  • Injuries
  • Suicide

Here is the full excerpt included in the Commission's report "The Status of Men in New Hampshire": (read more to continue)

"Mortality rates from all causes (cancer, diabetes, heart disease, injuries, suicide, etc.) are significantly higher for men than women. A number of studies document a disparity between men and women's health status and health seeking behaviors."

"According to one study, 70% of the uninsured men surveyed did not have a regular physician. Minority men are most likely to be uninsured and are at the highest risk. The study indicates that health care providers are missing opportunities to incorporate preventive care and anticipatory guidance in the illness or injury related visits most common among men."

"Additionally, screenings for prostate and colorectal cancers are not as well subsidized or funded as breast and cervical cancer screening for women."

"Other gender considerations include depression and suicidal ideation related to gender identification (especially in adolescents) and the issues of domestic and sexual violence."

Stop for a moment and think about these facts. Consider how they impact your loved ones and the people in your community - both men and women.

If we have a Commission on the Status of Women to promote awareness about women's health issues, don't we also need a Commission on the Status of Men to do the same for men's health issues?

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Here are some additional/corroborating factiods in Farrell's "The Myth of Male Power":

-Men die at a greater rate than women from all 15 of the leading causes of death.

-Women do not suffer from depression at a greater rate than men, as previously claimed. Instead, women are more likely, indeed encouraged, to report depression. When a study was done which acitively solicited men as to whether they were depressed, it was found that the rate was approximately equal to women's.

-It is often pointed out that blacks have a lower life expectancy than whites. But that does not give the complete picture. Here are the relative life expectancies:
White women - 79 years; black women - 74 years; White men - 72 years; Black men - 64 years.
Of course the media and others have been in an uproar over the difference due to race, and programs and policies have been created to address that issue (rightly so); but those in power have been mum on the difference between men and women, as far as telling us that we should be alarmed as a society and do something about the problem.

--Feminists have claimed that there has been a bias in medical studies, in that they have focused more on men's problems than women. That is not true. The reason more men than women have been used AS SUBJECTS, is because it is considered ok to use men a guinea pigs. Most of the studies themselves address health issues concerning both sexes.

--In fact, women have benefited greatly from the "male-dominated" medical research and technology. The female birth control pill, safe abortions, vaccines for almost all diseases which used to be deadly to large numbers of people (typhus, diptheria, smallpox, etc) are examples of the gifts the medical "patriarchy" has given us.

-Axolotl

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Submitted by axolotl on Sat, 2007-02-10 01:33