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Conference on Men’s Health
Third Nordic Conference

Stockholm

Thursday 10th and Friday 11th April 2008


Programme:
 


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