title: Calling for the absent male.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This is an edited version of a keynote address given by Dr Don Edgar at both the VicHealth Conference on 'Healthy Relationships in the Workplace' held in August 1998 and the Tasmanian Men's Health Conference held in Launceston in November 1998.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Men's lack of communication skills and emotional intelligence has serious negative consequences for their own physical and mental health, the wellbeing of their families and for the quality of their performance in the workplace.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Workplace Culture Change, RMIT, Melbourne.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Edgar
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D001315:Australia; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008571:Men / Q000523:psychology*; D008603:Mental Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology*; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology*