Involving Men in Targeted Primary Health Care: Men's Health Mots (Professional) (Report‪)‬

Introduction Acheson identified significant health inequalities in the UK, (1) examining differences between local mortality rates and highlighting that poorer communities had more deaths. Health policy was shaken by the implication that these health divisions existed 40 years after the creation of the welfare state. Subsequent researchers examined gender differences alongside mortality, and higher male mortality rates were present in all wards of the UK. (2) This phenomenon is replicated in most Western societies. (3) In North Staffordshire, male cancer mortality rates from 2003 to 2007 indicated similar trends of health inequalities across wards of Stoke-on-Trent. (4)