Peter Baker

Globally, men’s health is a problem that has as yet barely been addressed. The Lancet’s recently published and stunning report on the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) clearly shows the scale of the problem: in 2010, global male life expectancy stood at 67.5 years and female at 73·3 years. Although the life expectancy of both sexes has increased substantially since 1970, the sex gap is actually widening: from 4.8 years in 1970 to 5.8 years in 2010. Read the rest of this entry »