Health Minister Marjorie Michel says Canada needs to take action on men’s health, as she launched the first step toward a national strategy today.
The federal government is seeking feedback from people across the country, starting March 2.
Michel says the consultations are important to help the government understand the priorities as it looks to tackle the issues that lead men to poor health outcomes.
Data released by Movember Canada last summer shows men are three times more likely than women to die by suicide, and are less likely to ask doctors for help with a range of symptoms.
Movember has called for Canada to launch such a strategy, and is an independent partner in the work.
Michel made today’s announcement along with colleagues from other political parties, and says the issue is a non-partisan one.
Ha yes! Let’s throw money at a problem that is very little but have been blown out by the conservatives and other right wing fringe and, in the same time, let’s forget that women suffer way more
Do they though?
Get with THE AGENDA.
I’d rather them throw money at this than the stupidly failed gun buybacks and bans that have yet to produce a single positive result (and instead have been a money sink for decades).
I think you are misunderstanding the goal of this. The article says that men “are less likely to ask doctors for help with a range of symptoms”. Addressing this is a part of addressing toxic masculinity and historic inequities, and a part of the broader work of finding the appropriate healthcare intervention for each person instead of the traditional one size fits all approach.
I would rather that men go to doctors for health advice instead of trying to fix it on their own, or worse, going to online influencers for advice. Figuring out why that happens is a step towards changing it for the better. If this work actually produces results, it will be good for both men and women.
This.
Also we need a real way of countering incel propaganda and bullshit. Many young men are going into shit like this for decades without a single program to help them and steer them away from it. The polytechnique shooter in 1989 was a proto-incel before incels were a movement, and since then they have been producing more and more mass murderers and other criminals and all fueled by grifters profiting off this shit.
So many problems and so far only cuts to vital infrastructure and laws that violate people’s privacy and well-being instead of actual help.