Peter Baker

Jan 10, 2025 | thepharmacist.co.uk | Peter Baker |Carolyn Scott

With government’s plans for a men’s health strategy this year already announced, Peter Baker from Global Action on Men’s Health discusses how pharmacies can look at encouraging more engagement with men‘Men don’t go the doctor’ has become one of the fundamental tenets of men’s health.

May 7, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Peter Baker |Anthony Culyer |Victoria Fan |Francis Ruiz

ABSTRACTAll health systems must set priorities. Evidence-informed priority-setting (EIPS) is a specific form of systematic priority-setting which involves explicit consideration of evidence to determine the healthcare interventions to be provided. The international Decision Support Initiative (iDSI) was established in 2013 as a collaborative platform to catalyze faster progress on EIPS, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.

Jun 16, 2023 | internationalhealthpolicies.org | Peter Baker

Men’s excess burden of cancer is clear. Globally, one in eight men and one in 11 women die from cancer by the age of 74. The age-standardised cancer incidence rate for males is 207 per 100,000 compared to 178 for females; the respective mortality rates are 120 and 84. Lung cancer is the most frequently occurring cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in men, followed by prostate and colorectal cancer for incidence and liver and colorectal cancer for mortality.