Men's health | Movember - a month-long campaign that should spur year-round change

Movember - an entire month dedicated to raising awareness about men’s health and wellbeing, has become a firm fixture in the UK’s annual calendar, and sadly it’s for good reason.

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics Men indicates that ¾ of all suicides in the UK are by men. They're also more likely to resort to damaging coping mechanisms, such as drinking, than women are. 

Traditionally, the issue of mental health in men was met with denial or nonchalance - who among the men reading this hasn’t been told to ‘man up’ at least once in their life?

Fortunately, we know this has radically changed in the past decade and, while there are still cases of men’s wellbeing being dismissed or downplayed - most often by the victims themselves - these cases are outliers.