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What is the UK Gender Duty and why is it linked to men's health?

Peter Branney

Abstract

Emerging from contemporary UK equality policy, the Gender Duty is not ostensibly about health, although men's health groups are keen to use it to bring about improvements in the health of men. Nevertheless, the status of men's health as an inequality is contentious and any links to equality policy should not be left unquestioned. In this article, I try to develop a critical but supportive perspective regarding the potential of equality legislation for improving men's health by describing the Gender Duty and exploring the links between equality and human rights and men's health.

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Key concepts: Duty, Gender equality, Perspective (graphical), Right to health, Inequality, Legislation, Health policy, Political science