Health statistics reveal that women complain of ill-health and are in hospital more often than men, yet men’s health is definitely poorer than women’s. Consider these male-female differences:
• Men suffer more from heart disease, lung disease, high blood pressure and bowel cancer than women.
• Men have higher rates of suicide and self-injury than women.
• Men die on average six years earlier than women - life expectancy for men is 75, while for women it is 81 years.
• Men consult doctors less, take less responsibility for their health and are much less likely to be prescribed antidepressants than women.