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Guest editorial: A population health approach to men's health

New South Wales Public Health BulletinPublished 1 December 2001Open access
John Macdonald
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TL;DR

This issue of the NSW Public Health Bulletin looks at men’s health from the perspective of population health and highlights the steps that are being taken to improve the health of men in New South Wales.

Abstract

The concept of ‘population health’, though nowhere strictly defined, generally includes a concern for an integrated approach to the health of various sub-groups of given populations. We can find population health approaches to older people, women, children, and indigenous communities. But men? This issue of the NSW Public Health Bulletin looks at men’s health from the perspective of population health and highlights the steps that are being taken to improve the health of men in New South Wales.

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Social SciencesHealth Professions