Barriers to Men’s Healthcare
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Barriers to Men’s Healthcare
Patient Imperatives in the face of professional controversy
Virgil SimonsFounder & PresidentThe Prostate Net, Inc.®
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Pathways to Cancer Awareness Access Environment Lifestyle Culture Genetics Every cancer is different
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National Healthcare Quality Report - 2007
•“Preventive healthcare lags significantly behind other gains in healthcare.”
•Access to care and information varied widely between racial/ethnic groups and by socio-economic status
• Source: www.ahrq.gov
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The Prostate Net Survivor led non-profit corporation
(1996) Multi-focal service matrix Focus:
Education InterventionResearch
Deliver value
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Listening to the Audience:ARS initiative
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On-going Concerns
“Lack of educational efforts” “Will screening be part of healthcare reform” “...men of color MUST take care of themselves” “the quality of the faculty was over the top” “more time for advanced disease needed”
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Defining Barriers to Men’s Participation in
HealthcareAttitudinal Barriers
Gender Role Stoicism Work Role StoicismDistrust of the Health Care SystemFatalism: “you’ve got to die of
something.”Maladaptive Self-Reliance: “A ‘man’ takes
care of his own problems.”
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Early Disease Detection Barriers
U.S. vs European conflict on screening No consensus among U.S. agencies Lack of “Risk” determination Compared to Women:
Men are less likely to utilize the health care system
Men are less likely to carry health insuranceMore likely to delay seeking healthcare
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Primary Care Impact
• Decline in doctors entering into Primary Care Medicine
• Resistance to greater use of nurse practitioners
• Continuing shortage of nurses
• Closing of ER’s• Resistance to
“Convenient Care” clinics
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Complicating the Issue
Women vs. Men Comparable incidence and mortality Research funds - 3X for breast cancer Public health staffing - inconsistent Government commitment - no
agencies Media focus - inordinately female focus Men don’t communicate
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The Benefits of Positive Men’s Health to the
Community Reducing or controlling rising health care costs
through preventing costly, advanced disease Reducing economic costs of preventable male
illness, including lost time from work, disability, diminished income, and reduced work productivity
Increased attention to men’s health ultimately holds the potential to bolster and uplift the health status of both genders
Gender health is not either/or, It’s both or neither
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Expectations
Survivorship: What is being done to extend my life NOW
Focus:On the patient, not the system
Results:Need balance between the future and present
Think Globally:Utilize data and results from the rest of the
world
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So…what’s the answer