Interfaith Creation Festival: Year of Dialogue and Action
Mobilizing Communities of Faith in Caring for Creation
The purpose of this group is to support the follow-through activities of the Interfaith Creation Festival through June 2008 in releasing the voices and energies of communities of faith in the shared task of healing the earth and creating a just and sustainable society.
GROUP DETAILS
Created: Sep 27, 2007
Updated: Sep 21, 2009
Membership: Open
Semi-Private
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Men's Health
| Men's Health refers to any issue, condition or determinant that affects the quality of life of men and for which different responses are required in order for men to experience optimal social, emotional, and physical health. The average life-expectancy gap between men and women is shrinking, but on average women still live over 5 years longer than men. Men still drink and smoke more than women, visit the doctor less, engage in risk-taking behavior and have stressful work habits. Often this behavior is a result of cultural stereotypes of ‘manly' behavior. Men's health proponents raise awareness of male lifestyle choices and how they affect health and longevity. |
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Keywords gender based health care, male circumcision, testicular cancer, prostate cancer, premature mortality, life expectancy, educating men about health, environmental health, gender specific medicine, health equity, minority men's health, indigenous men's health, meat-eating and masculinity, boy's health, men's lifestyle choices, erectile dysfunction, irritable male syndrome (IMS), male depression, andropause, breast cancer, osteoporosis | |
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