Seanad debates
Thursday, 27 February 2003
Suicide Incidence: Statements.
This is a multidisciplinary interdepartmental issue which needs to be assessed. We need more male teachers in our national schools. We need to campaign on men's health issues. The levels of prostate cancer, as the Minister of State will be aware, are significantly higher in this country than in other countries because we have done nothing to advertise and concentrate the minds of people on the issue. When one goes into a GP's surgery, one sees women in the main because of the very poor association between medical health providers and men. Even when I go into a GP's surgery I see all kinds of campaigns rightly focusing on female conditions and female problems, but not the same concentration on men's health issues.
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