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The problem with what you are saying is that there is no evidence to support it. Yet the numbers do support reduction in suicide of men because of the mental health initiative.
As is always true of change, people are liable to forget or even discount the very positive and continued outcomes of sometimes very simple steps. Taking men as an example, it was not so long ago that to admit any anxiety, stress or mental 'deficiency' would have been quite impossible. If told to a doctor it would likely have been dismissed with an embarrassed cough, or "Mate, develop a thicker skin or take some leave if you have it." It was impossible for men in positions of trust, especially in politics or business, to admit anything, even to their wives and for trades or blue collar workers, no chance!
Fact is, it remains very, very hard for men to go against the conditioning and insensitivity they were exposed to as a routine in their youth, when growing up and even when they are seniors.
One of the really big discoveries for improving men's health was that although they were interested in their health they were confronted by a system that for whatever reason (and there are many) didn't really mean it when men were encouraged by brochures to get examinations and it wasn't particularly rewarding when they did. Men knew that instinctively and things still have a long way to go.
Never underestimate the difference made by brave men like Jeff Kennett coming forward.
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1152967.htm
Returning to the research report linked to by C J Morgan, not only is it obviously deficient in fact and its methodology is suspect, but the authors themselves acknowledged major limitations in it (at pages 17, 25, 44 and 45 from memory, but easily checked).
Frankly I smell a rat in the coincidence of the sloppy 'research' being released now by the two economists, one of whom is a newly elected Labor MP. Mental health funding is up for dibs and there are uncommitted independents around (fewer today).