Men die younger and when sick they seek help later. While it is now accepted that many of the causes of premature death in men are potentially remediable by appropriate education, counseling, diagnosis, and therapy, few, if any, inroads have been made in terms of actually closing the mortality gap between the sexes. Why, given the facts, is men's health still so neglected?Taking a comprehensive approach, Men's Health, Second Edition fills a gap in the available literature on specifically male health issues. Completely revised and updated, the second edition covers disease management, maintenance, and prevention. The editors address the full range of men's healthcare problems, ranging from sexual to surgical, medical to psychiatric, and including illness prevention and health maintenance. Like its predecessor, this new edition is intended not only for primary care practitioners, who wrestle everyday with the consequences of ill health among men, but also for specialists such as cardiologists, urologists, and others, who deal with the diseases that afflict men so commonly.
A well-illustrated clinical guide, the textbook is an exhaustive reference on male health from childhood to old age.
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1. Help Seeking in Men and the Problems of Late Diagnosis 2. Inequalities and Men's Health 3. Men's Health in Primary Care 4. Exercise and Men's Health 5. Obesity and Men's Health 6. Diabetes Mellitus 7. Lipids and Lipid-modifying Therapy 8. Hypertension 9. Coronary Heart Disease in Men 10. Men's Health: Heart Failure 11. Erectile Dysfunction: Cardiovascular Risk and the Role of the Primary Care Physician 12. Risk Factors in Men with Erectile Dysfunction 13. Cutaneous Melanoma 14. Alopecia 15. Osteoporosis in Men 16. Trauma and Men's Health 17. Smoking and Lung Cancer 18. Men as Risk Takers 19. Ignorance and Uncertainty Regarding Cancer and Cancer Genetics amongst Men 20. Evaluation and Treatment of Male Infertility 21. Premature Ejaculation 22. Androgen Deficiency in the Aging Male 23. Benign and Malignant Disease of the Prostate 24. The PSA Debate 25. Prostatitis 26. Haematuria 27. Erectile Dysfunction: Diagnosis and Treatment 28. Testicular Cancer 29 Circumcision 30. Peyronie's Disease 31. Penile Carcinoma and Associated Conditions 32. Hypospadias: Uncovering a Common Problem 33. Genital Piercing 34. the Overactive Bladder and Incontinence 35. Male Contraception: Novel Approaches 36. Men and Suicide: Asessment, Management and Aftermath in a primary Care Setting 37. HIV Infection and AIDS 38. Hepatitis B and C 39. Sexually Transmitted Infections 40. Care of the Traveller
