Mary Wallace (Meath East, Fianna Fail)

One of the main purposes of the national men's health policy is to bring a greater focus on the needs of men as a population group. The policy, which aligns itself with existing policies and strategies, focuses on the need to ensure services are reconfigured to reflect best available evidence of what will work to deliver the desired outcomes.

I am satisfied that much can be done within existing resources to re-orientate services to improve men's health, including in the case of primary care services and in making good quality "male-friendly" health information available and accessible to men. The policy document has been extensively researched and will be an invaluable resource for policy-makers across various Departments in providing research evidence for the development and roll-out of services appropriate to the needs of men as a population group.

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