mens use of health services; a no man's land?
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Delivered by Dr Ian Banks, President of the European Men's Health Forum at the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association Annual Meeting 2009.TRANSCRIPT
Ian BanksPresident European Men’s Health Forum (with thanks to Alan White)
Mens use of health services;A No Man’s Land?
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Life expectancy for men and women2001, by country
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Women
Source of data:Statistics in Focus Theme 3 17/2002
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Men in Glasgow's east end have life expectancy of 54Daily Record, 29 August 2008
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Consultations with doctor – Proportion of rates per 10,000 person years at risk by ‘minor’ category of severity, by sex
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Consultations with doctor – Proportion of rates per 10,000 person years at risk by ‘serious’ category of severity, by sex
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Men tend to delay diagnosis and treatmentThe example of Melanoma (all ages)
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Sweden
Denmark
Austria
Finland
The Netherlands
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Germany
Luxembourg
Italy
Ireland
France
Belgium
Spain
Portugal
Greece
Source of data: Health for All database 2003
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Sweden
Denmark
The Netherlands
Switzerland
Austria
Ireland
Finland
France
Germany
United Kingdom
Belgium
Luxembourg
Italy
Spain
Portugal
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Incidence Rates Death Rates
Men
Women
Rate per 100,000
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Men twice as likely not to know they have diabetes 02 November 2009
New research suggests men over 50 are nearly twice as likely to have undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes than
their female counterparts, warns Diabetes UK today.
Published in the journal Diabetic Medicine, a nationally representative study of 6,739 52- to 79-
year-olds found 502 to have diabetes. Of the men with diabetes, 22 per cent did not realise they had the
condition before the study, compared to 12 per cent of the women.
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Men’s usage of the health service
Source: General Household Survey, Office for National Statistics, 1988,1989
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25-34
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Consultations with GP In-patient use
Men Women
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Cost of late diagnosis
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Diabetes
2.35 million people in the UK have diabetes (source: UK, DH)
– Expected to grow to more than 2.5 million in 2010 (in part due to rising obesity)
What does this cost the UK health economy?
– Answer: ~5% of total NHS spending per year (~10% of hospital in-patient spending) (source: UK DH) – total NHS spending is ~£110 Billion (source: HM Treasury)
What happens to costs if there are health complications from diabetes?
– Answer: costs continue to rise – in the United States complications from undiagnosed diabetes alone are estimated to cost ~ $18 Billion (source: Zhang et al 2009).
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Chlamydia screening
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Prostate health awareness
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Main pointsMen present late for diagnosis?
There are multiple factors
The cost is unknown but is considerable
The workplace is an ideal venue for addressing this issue
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