ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION Men’s healthcare is acknowledged as being equal in importance to women’s (see Chapter 7), and while in the past the impact of men’s health problems may not have been as apparent, in today’s society this is no longer the case. Men in many cultures, for example, are more involved in child care and in many instances women have taken over the man’s traditional role as the main breadwinner in the family. At the same time there has also been an increase in the number of men entering nursing and other healthcare professions, although nursing in the main remains a femaledominated profession.
