Few People Care about Men’s Health
It is October and every where you look you hear about Breast Cancer Awareness month. This is from both men and women. Both men and women care about women’s health. Even the bastion of masculinity the NFL wears pink to play. I agree this is an important cause.
It is men’s nature to protect women. And most men have mothers, sisters, daughters, etc that they care about.
But what about Men’s health? Did you know that almost as many men die of prostate cancer as women die of breast cancer?
Did you know that September was Prostate Awareness Month? Yeah, me neither. No one talked about it.
According to: http://www.menshealthnetwork.org/wapc/HP%202020%20WAPC%20Testimony.pdf spending on Women’s Health vs Men’s Health favors women 6.5:1.
Funding for gender research at NIH includes:
i. $ 4,376,000,000 for women’s health (breast cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, and “women’s health”)
ii. And $345,000,000 for men’s health (prostate cancer)Funding for programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention include:
i. $ 309,486,000 for breast and cervical cancer
ii. $ 13,243,000 for prostate cancer
If women lived shorter lifespans than men…wouldn’t everyone be fighting to get extra funding for women? Then why doesn’t it happen the other way?
Why does it seem that men speak out for women more than they do for themselves?
Why does it seem that women don’t speak out for men as much as men speak out for them?
Also from the pdf above:
“As a woman and representative of Women Against Prostate Cancer, I know that gender disparities in health do not affect men in isolation, but can lead to devastating consequences for entire families. Children missing out on spending time with their fathers and grandfathers, wives becoming widows when they should be growing old with their husbands, and families left in poverty with the death of their fathers and husbands.”
SO glad you posted the video…it’s so wonderful and a great thing to fight for! Divorce is so hard as is it, there is no reason to purposely make it harder than it has to be.
In this household my husband takes better care of himself (health) than I do! LOL…
Thank you! I agree.
Maybe you could take some guidance from his example. For your sake and for your entire family’s sake.
Those are some pretty interesting statistics that I was very unaware of. I assumed it wasn’t that big of a deal since there wasn’t much attention to it. Part of me is very bothered by the inequities shown here, but these are really created and perpetuated by men themselves. It’s the male psyche and ego that get in the way. We feel compelled not only to protect but also to be able to handle anything that comes our way, alone if possible. We’re not very good at accepting help and wearing a ribbon or doing a “walk for prostate cancer” doesn’t come natural. I’m not sure what the answer is or who can save us from ourselves, but it is what it is. Thanks for posting this! I agree it’s important that fathers have rights too.