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Volume 3
Advanced Practices in Nursing
ISSN: 2573-0347
Clinical Nursing 2018
August 29-30, 2018
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Tony O’Brien, Adv Practice Nurs 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.4172/2573-0347-C6-031
Men's preconception health, healthy fathers, a practice nurse approach
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his presentation addresses what practice nurses can do while working withmen regarding preconception health improvement
to become healthy fathers. Australian men live longer than previous years; however, they have not reached the levels of overall
longevity that Australian women enjoy. Men have higher mortality rates for suicide, accidents and injury and higher mortality
rates for the leading causes of death; tobacco smoking, hypertension, obesity, inactivity, cholesterol abnormality, and alcohol.
Men are also vulnerable to the epigenetic effects on epigenomes that can potentially influence the transgenerational inheritance
health of offspring during their lifetime. Australia’s first people, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) men, continue to die
well before non-indigenous men and also figure highly in mortality statistics for cancer, circulatory system disorders, respiratory
disorders and endocrine and metabolic disorders. Wenitong (2002) argues in the context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
men that a tailored indigenous cultural approach is critical to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men’s health. Many
of the health problems that occur with indigenous and non-indigenous men are associated with preconception male health
including, depression, alcohol abuse, COPD, diabetes and smoking-leading to health priority illnesses. This paper highlights
men’s preconception health needs in the context of primary health care and what practice nurses can do to promote healthy male
preconception behaviour.
Biography
Tony O’Brien is a Registered Hospital Trained Nurse in Mental Health and General at the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. He has held Nurse Registration
in Singapore, New Zealand and United Kingdom and worked as an RN in these countries. He has extensive clinical experience in mental health community case
management, acute mental health nursing, mental health intake assessment and aged care. As a nurse academic, he has provided curriculum consultation to nursing
groups and universities in Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Brunei and Singapore; including curriculum review and development workshops. He has published over 200
publications including, reports, monographs, book chapters and journal articles. He has been the Lead or Co-investigator on over 40 nursing research projects during his
academic career, to a total of over 2 million dollars. His research profile has focused on quality nursing interventions, practice development, service re-design, models of
care and translating clinical research to improve the quality of patient care; more recently men’s preconception health.
Tony O’Brien
The University of Newcastle, Australia