Water Safety New Zealand does a breakdown of the 2010 stats. In short, declining death rate, predominantly male.

On April 6, 2010, the Foundation for Male Studies is having their Second Annual Conference on Male Studies, Looking Forward to Solutions. This global web-broadcast conference will gather scholars representing a wide range of academic disciplines including anthropology, education, history, medicine, politics and psychology – and have them present captivating findings at the New York Academy of Medicine. The current condition of males as well as real-time solutions will be laid out to a live audience in over 10 countries.

Moderated by Guy Garcia, an award-winning journalist, novelist and multimedia entrepreneur, and author of The Decline of Men: How the American Male is Tuning Out, Giving Up, and Flipping Off His Future, this conference promises to capture the interest of many professionals including professors, students, physicians, psychologists, politicians, health care specialists, authors and education.

Peter Dunne of United Future argues we need to support fathers to be more involved following family separation if we want to reduce child abuse and neglect in New Zealand.

Prescription is keen to support men in the Canterbury area to use physical exercise as a means to address mental and physical health issues. If you know any men who want to get more involved in exercise see http://www.sportcanterbury.org.nz/content/e2smarty_category/1/68/49/

What is Green Prescription (GRx) (more…)

Stuart Birks of Massey University runs a mailing list for interesting news articles and other material on men’s and fathers’ issues from around the world. Recently there have been 5-10 messages per month, so traffic is not heavy. If anyone is interested in being added to the list, just send an email to k.s.birks@massey.ac.nz with the message or subject line “Please add to men’s/fathers’ list”.

Now men have an excuse to play the didgeridoo at one in the morning. It’s found to cause improvements in some people with sleep apnoea.

Study Conclusion Regular didgeridoo playing is an effective treatment alternative well accepted by patients with moderate obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome.

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Silas has been working at the men’s centre for most of this year as a social worker on placement. He dropped by to pick up some stuff and paused to admire our new banner.

The December Male Call contains a ‘Salute to the Men of Pike River’

The Canterbury Men’s Centre recognises the sacrifice these men made to create a better life for us all. Many men have reflected on their work career and thought “it could have been me”.

Donald Pettitt talks with Mornings host Ed Swift about the Canterbury Men’s Centre.

• http://www.accessradio.org/datafiles/201010282001201288249280-2010-10-28_donald_pettitt.mp3

Time to grow the mo’ again for those of you that are so inclined. The Canterbury Men’s Centre is forming a team though their staff have been informed by their partners that they aren’t allowed to grow one of “those things”. Last year’s CMC Mo’ team were treated to a few rounds of sedatives at the end of the event.

To sign up, go to link http://nz.movember.com/donate/your-details/member_id/1241/. Info about programmes and research they support at http://nz.movemberfoundation.com/research-and-programs Heart Foundation