WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- The Washington-based Men's Health Network and other advocates have called for an end to an alleged "health disparity" that focuses on women's health issues.
The network has called on the U.S. Health and Human Services Department to create an office of men's health to compliment the office of women's health and focus on medical risks unique to men, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
"We've got men dying at higher rates of just about every disease, and we don't know why," said Dr. Demetrius J. Porche, an associate dean at Louisiana State University's Health Sciences Center School of Nursing in New Orleans, and the editor of the American Journal of Men's Health, which is set to begin publication in March.
However, some women's health advocates have taken issue with claims that men's health has been neglected in favor of women's.
"During the first half-century of our nation's investment in medical research, the majority of resources went to studying men and the conditions that affected men disproportionately," said Cynthia Pearson, executive director of the National Women's Health Network in Washington. "Is their health perfect? No. But they don't need a movement."
