Men die about six years younger than women.
Almost half of all men die from heart disease and related conditions.
Prostate cancer in men is almost as common as breast cancer in women.
Almost five times as many men die from prostate cancer as the number of women who die from cervical cancer.
Testicular cancer is the most common form of cancer in young men aged 15 to 44. One in 273 Irish men contracts it and some needlessly die from it.
Melanoma kills more men than women - even though more women than men contract it.
Three times as many men as women die in car crashes.
Men are more likely than women to be killed in workplace accidents.
Men suffer greater injuries due to contact sports than women.
Most sexually transmitted diseases have a higher incidence rate among men than women.
Most alcoholics, drug addicts and patients in mental hospitals are male.
About 11 men die in Ireland every day because they smoke.
One-third of sufferers from depression are male.
Suicide is in the top two causes of death among males aged 15 to 24.
Men often have inadequate coping skills for life crises like bereavement, divorce or redundancy.
Some 140 million men worldwide suffer from impotence.
Only recently are realities like male rape, sexual abuse of boys, domestic violence against men and the paucity of legal protection of fathers' rights being aired.
Most miscarried foetuses and babies born with congenital abnormalities are male.
The mortality rate in the first year of life is higher for males than for females.