UPCOMING EVENTS

            2ND NATIONAL MEN'S HEALTH CONFERENCE

Title     : " MENS HEALTH : A New Way of being for the 21st Century"
When    :     29-31 th October 1997
Where  :   Fremantle

Aims of conference :

• To raise community awareness about mens health issues
• To draw together interested groups and individuals to focus on mens health issues
• To provide community groups with the opportunity to present information about mens health and well being initiatives currently being undertaken
• To provide a forum for debate about about the status of mens health
• To make recommendations to Local, State and federal Governments in relation to mens health issues and strategies for policy development

Organizing : Mens Health Teaching and research unit,
                        School of Public Health,
                        Curtain University
                        Allan Huggins Chairman,
                        Lecturer and Director of MH Unit
                  ph : 09-351-7242 or 0412109894

The conference registration fee is expected to be $285 for 3 days,
or $150 for single day registrations.
Students/unemployed/pensioners 20% reduction.
Fees include lunch, morning and afternoon teas.
Conference Dinner at Surf Club Fish Cafe, Port Beach $45.

The Conference program will be confined to the following important
men's health issues :

• Mens Health and Health risk behaviour : implications for
• Socialization and Models of Masculinity in the Australian Culture
• Mens Health Policy Developments and other Mens Health Initiatives
• Rural Mens Health
• Indigenous Mens Health : Programmes for the future
• Mens Health and Support Groups : What role do they play
• Young Mens Injury and Suicide
• Men and Occupational Health

• Improving and Enhancing Mens Health by :
  - General Practitioners and Divisions of General practice
  -Nurses
  -Allied Health Profesionals
  -Health Promotion Professionals and Agencies
  -Teachers
  -Consumer organizations

• Male Sexual Health and Sexual Identity

• Men with Disabilities
• Emotional and Mental Health
• Adolescent Males : Boys to Men
• Role and Identity Crisis for the Middle Age Male 40 - 55
• Mental Illness : Depression and Anxiety
• Men and Violence
• Alcohol and other Drugs and the Australian / New Zealand Male
• Consumer Perspectives
• Boys'Schooling/Education and Mens Health : Why are boys not doing well

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