Isolation and loneliness are risk factors for poor health, and are increasingly affecting younger men. GPs can play an important role in recognising and addressing the problems using the tools and services being developed to help tackle the issues.

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This booklet presents managing and repairing relationships in the form of a toolkit of techniques. This approach can make it more engaging and accessible for men who are used to dealing with repair guides or manuals and is therefore more likely to be actioned.

This issue of the Men's Health Peer Education (MHPE) stresses the importance of social connectedness and its benefits to men's health and wellbeing.

Separation can be a highly traumatic process for both men and women. This booklet provides a guide for men going through divorce or separation, offering a resource that can help them manage the trauma more effectively.

COPMI produces resources for health workers and fathers that promote involvement in family health by fathers. Usually this is based around contexts of family environments managing mental illness but the resources available are useful for engaging fathers in most contexts. 

Research from the University College London published in August 2012 reveals that there is a direct connection between the size of a person's social network and their psychological wellbeing. For men more than women, there is a benefit from the extended social networks that come from having a partner.