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Male health—a recent paradigm

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During the month of November, the Movember Foundation challenges men to grow a moustache in an effort to raise vital funds and awareness for the often ignored health issues affecting the male population. Global health-care delivery and policies, which have focussed on women's, children's and minority's health for the past few decades, need now address these issues.

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  1. Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Level 6, 2775 Laurel Street, Vancouver, V5Z 1M9, BC, Canada

    S. Larry Goldenberg

  2. Centre for Men's Health, Institute for Health & Wellbeing, Leeds Beckett University, Calverley 512, Portland Way, Leeds, LS1 3HE, UK

    Alan White

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Goldenberg, S., White, A. Male health—a recent paradigm. Nat Rev Urol 12, 15–16 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrurol.2014.306

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