Thursday 10th – 12:30-17:00 (Registration starts
at 11:00)
Opening
Men’s Health in Europe – with a focus
on men and cancer
Alan White, Professor of men’s health & Director the Centre
for Men’s Health, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK
Prevalence and survival in relation
to PSA testing for prostate cancer,
Jan Adolfsson MD, Associate Professor of Urology, Director
of the Oncological, Center, Stockholm/Gotland, Sweden
PSA testing - psycho social aspects
Gunnar Steineck MD, Professor Karolinska Institutet/Göteborg
University, Sweden
Pause
Depression in men - diagnosis and
treatment
Ullakarin Nyberg MD/PhD, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Suicide among men
Bo Runeson, Associate professor MD PhD , Dep Clin
Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Towards better care for men who lose
a wife to cancer
Arna Hauksdóttir, PhD student, Clinical Cancer Epidemiology,
Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
Pause
Enhanced mortality amongst widowers
Bragi Skúlason, Hospital Pastor/PhD student, Landspitalinn (University
Hospital),Reykjavik, Iceland
Cognitive dysfunction after treatment
for testicular cancer
Johanna Skoogh, Leg Psychologist & PhD student, Clinical
Cancer epidemiology, Sahlgrenska Akademin, Göteborg University,
Sweden
Masculinity and Men's Health -
Coronary Heart Disease in Medical and Public Discourse
Elianne Riska, Professor, Swedish School of Social Science,
University of Helsinki, Finland
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Lena Kanström, Director, Center of Public Health,
Stockholm County Council, Sweden
Friday 11th – 9:00-16:00
Masculinity and health - as projected
in the media
Stina Backman PhD, Tema Institute, University of Linköping,
Sweden
Male menopause - psycho social
aspects
Stefan Arver MD, Professor, Center for Andrology and Sexual
Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden
Psychotherapeutic treatment of men
with post natal depression
Svend Aage Madsen PhD, Head Psychologist, Copenhagen
University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Pause
The Men’s movement in Sweden
Helena Hill PhD, the School of Gender, History and Culture, Södertörn University
College, Sweden
Gender equality from the male
perspective - a new Swedish movement
Zanyar Adami, Editor in chief, Sweden
Viking or Wise - polarising Icelandic
male identity
Bragi Skúlason, Hospital Pastor/PhD student, Landspitalinn (University
Hospital), Reykjavik, Iceland
Panel Discussion
Moderators: Karen Leander, Stockholm Centre for Public
Health and Maria Danielsson, Centre for Epidemiology, National
Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden
Lunch
“Forced” parental leave - the
Icelandic experience
Ingólfur Gíslason, University of Reykjavik, Iceland
Fathers without children & the
Fathers Advocate
Arne Wirén, journalist & Stefan Blomgren, a father without
children, Sweden
Emotional isolation in Swedish men
Asgeir R. Helgason, Associate Professor, Karolinska
Institutet, Sweden
Promoting men’s sexual health –
experiences from Järva Men’s Clinic
Gunilla Neves Ekman, MPH qualified social worker, Stockholm
Centre for Public Health & Järva mansmottagning, Sweden
Setting up a resource centre for men
Ulf Rikter-Svendsen, director, Reform - Resource Centre for
Men, Norway
Panel Discussion
Moderator: Sarah Wamala, Associate Professor, Head of
Department for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,
Stockholm County Council
Closing remarks
Svend Aage Madsen, PhD, Head Psychologist Denmark, President of
Danish Men’s Health Society
About the conference
The Nordic Conference on Men’s Health in
Stockholm 10th and 11th April 2008 is the third Nordic
conference on men’s health.
The first conference took place in Copenhagen 2004 and had
special focus on defining Men’s Health as a particular issue:
Nordic Men's
Health Conference 2004.
The second conference was held in Oslo 2006, and had focus on
Men’s Health in a gender equality perspective.
Nordic Men's Health Conference 2006.
In 2008 the conference takes place in
Stockholm, hosted by FORUM, Centre for Public Health (Centrum
för folkhälsa) under the Stockholm County Council (Stockholms
läns landsting).
Conference venue:
Centrum för folkhälsa, Västgötagatan 2, Stockholm - Sweden.
Registration fee is SEK 950/450 (full prize/students)
incl. coffee, fruit and light lunch Friday. To get information
on registration: Contact nordicmenshealth@reform.no or lokk into
the web site of the conference:
http://nordicmenshealth.wordpress.com
Program committee:
Asgeir R. Helgason
asgeir.helgason@sll.se
Svend Aage Madsen
svendaage@madsen.mail.dk
Marianne Inez Lien
marianne.inezlien@reform.no
Ulf Rikter-Svendsen ulf@reform.no
Karin Eriksson
karin.eriksson@rayclinic.com
Organisers:
Nordisk Netværk for Mænds Helse (Nordic Network for Men’s
Health)
FORUM för kunskap och gemensam utveckling, Stockholms Läns
Landsting
Klinisk cancerepidemiologi, institutionen för onkologi-patologi,
Karolinska institutet
Andrologenheten, Huddinge, Karolinska Sjukhuset
SWEDPOS, Svensk Förening för Psykosocial Onkologi