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Men's Health Issues
Joseph C. Konen, MD, MSPH
Arch Fam Med. 1993;2(9):917-919.
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DURING THIS first year of publishing the ARCHIVES, the editors have been careful to avoid issues dedicated to a single theme. However, a first-year retrospective shows several themes that highlight the topics faced by family physicians most often, including acute and chronic diseases, family violence, and issues of women's and men's health. Men find themselves, in the early part of this decade, at the beginning of an interesting era. On the one hand, even the lay literature highlights the rapidly changing roles of the American man (Time. June 28, 1993:141); on the other, the medical literature promises, more than ever before, a brighter future for preventing and treating maladies that are uniquely male.
Parallel to the flurry of articles appearing throughout the general and specialty medical literature, this past year the ARCHIVES has published several studies that highlight gains in our understanding and treatment of male disorders. The first of these
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Author Affiliations
Bowman Gray School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC
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