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Here you can find a range of factsheets to support and inform the activities you are planning for National Men's Health Week. They cover a broad range of subjects and issues, reflecting the nature of NMHW in focusing on men and long-term conditions in the broadest sense.
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- General Men's Health Statistics
- Men and Boys Long-Term Conditions
- Previous weeks factsheets
- The Haynes Mini Manuals (pdf)
General Men's Health Statistics
Please click on the link above for the latest men's health statistics from the MHF. The link contains the following information:
- Headline figures
- Life and death
- Risk-taking
- Men and disease
- Men and doctors
- Men and race
- Men and class
- Regional Variations
- International
- 2005 Oct - Comparative statistics male-female prepared by MHF
- 2006 Oct - National Statistics Focus on Gender
- Vulnerable Groups and Access to Health Care: A Critical Interpretive Review, 2005
While clicking on the link below will take you to a summary of Men's Health Statistics, from April 2004:
Please find a range of more recent (2006) men's health figures, from the Health of Men project below:
Men's Health Statistics — Gender, Ethnicity and Inequality
Further Men's Health Stats:
FASTATS: Men's Health(National Center for Health Statistics)
Heart Disease and Stroke Maps(National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion)
Leading Causes of Death: Males - United States, 2002(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Produced by the Office for National Statistics 'Social Trends' draws together social and economic data from a wide range of government departments and other organisations to provide a comprehensive guide to British society. The underlying theme in the 2007 edition is children and young people.
Men and Boys and Long-Term Conditions
The NMHW2007 Policy Document has recently been completed, and is now available at the above link. This is the central document at the heart of much of the activity of the week, and will form the core of our lobbying work around mental health, this week and into the future.
Relevant sections from our award-winning malehealth.co.uk website:
Malehealth - Midlife crisis
Malehealth - Stress
Malehealth - Emotional Health
The following links relate specifically to long-term or chronic conditions:
Coping with Chronic Illness (National Library of Medicine)
Children with Chronic Conditions (University of Michigan Health System)
Dealing with a Health Condition (Nemours Foundation)
Chronic Illness and Depression (Cleveland Clinic Foundation
The Department of Health - Long Term Conditions
This section of the DH site contains comprehensive information on long term conditions policy. News, events, Policy documents, non-clinical guidance, links and other resources can be accessed here. Information on the National Service Framework for Long term (Neurological) conditions is available here.
Long-term (Neurological) Conditions NSF
The Long-term (Neurological) Conditions National Service Framework (NSF) was launched in March 2005. The NSF aims to transform the way health and social care services support people to live with long-term neurological conditions.
Self care - A real choice: Self care support - A practical option
This communication sets out the position on the Department of Health's policy to support Self Care. It is aimed at Primary Care Trust (PCT), NHS Trust, Strategic Health Authority (SHA) and social care management teams, as well as health and social care professionals and practitioners.
The NHS and Social Care long term conditions model
The NHS and Social Care Long Term Conditions Model builds on the wealth of local and international experiences and innovations to improve the health and quality of life of those with long term conditions.
Consultation techniques that improve quality of life for patients and clinicians
Long-term ill health, poverty and ethnicity
Sarah Salway, Lucinda Platt, Punita Chowbey, Kaveri Harriss and Elizabeth Bayliss
This report presents findings from a detailed new investigation into the experiences of individuals living with long-term ill-health and their families. New in-depth qualitative material is combined with secondary analyses of national datasets to examine the ways in which long-term ill-health impacts upon different dimensions of poverty.
The NHS and social care model is a blueprint to support local NHS and social care organisations in improving local services for people with long term conditions. It draws on existing successes and innovations from the NHS and social care and international experience to help local health communities to develop a more integrated and systematic approach.
This guide explains how health and social care services can support people with long term conditions to self care through an integrated package which includes information, self monitoring devices, self care skills education and training and self care support networks.
The National Service Framework for Long-term Conditions: Information leaflet
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This leaflet is a summary of the key messages in the National Service Framework (NSF) for Long-term Conditions. The NSF was developed in consultation with people with long-term neurological conditions in order to raise standards of treatment, care and support across health and social care services. It does this through Quality Requirements for health and social care professionals to use.
Please find above a link to a leaflet specifically made for the week on pelvic pain in men. This has been produced in collaboration with the Pelvin Pain Support Network: http://www.pelvicpain.org.uk/
This excellent factsheet from MIND, is primarily aimed at students and professionals who work with men in mental distress. It may also be of interest to men who are in distress themselves, their friends, relatives and carers. This factsheet looks at how men experience mental distress, and the social and physical contexts of mental illness. It also examines the mental health of particular groups, including the young and the old, homosexual, black and minority ethnic communities.
This informative document from the Eating Disorders Association (EDA) was produced in 2000, and can be downloaded by clicking on the link above. It focuses on the provision of treatment and services available for men, as well as including an overview of the situation relating to men and eating disorders.
This is a very useful guide to running a diabetes awareness event in the community. It is a very practical guide to completing a successful event to raise awareness of diabetes.
Contact: a directory for mental health 2005
This publication contains information on mental health problems, including depression, anxiety states, eating disorders, psychosis schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder/manic-depressive illness, and dementia. Also includes information on seeking help and treatments, and provides a list of organisations specialising in this subject.
Mental health: strengthening mental health promotion
The positive dimension of mental health is stressed in WHO's definition of health as contained in its constitution: "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." WHO's 191 member states have endorsed this sweeping statement.
Mental health problems: the undefined and hidden burden (WHO)
The undefined burden of mental problems refers to the economic and social burden for families, communities and countries. Although obviously substantial, this burden has not been efficiently measured. This is because of the lack of quantitative data and difficulties in measuring and evaluating. The hidden burden refers to the burden associated with stigma and violations of human rights and freedoms. Again, this burden is difficult to quantify. This is a major problem throughout the world, as many cases remain concealed and unreported.
Cancer information needs of Black and Ethnic Minority communities
This is a very useful set of points provided by CancerBacup.
Developing Nursing Resources for Mental Health
This factsheet was produced by the International Council of Nurses. The Nursing Matters fact sheets provide quick reference information and international perspectives from the nursing profession on current health and social issues.
Project Atlas was launched by WHO in 2000 in an attempt to map mental health resources in the world. These data are needed at the country level to assess the current situation and to assist in developing plans and at the regional and global levels to develop an aggregate picture of the available mental health resources and the overall needs.
The following fact sheet is provided by the World Health Organization:
Strengthening Mental Health Promotion: Mental Health is Not Just the Absence of Mental Disorder
This document on stress has been prepared by Anderson Peak Performance, who can be contacted at www.andersonpeakperformance.co.uk
The following links provide background statistical information on mental health in the UK, from the National Office of Statistics:
Mental Health - Mental disorders more common in boys
The Haynes Mini Manuals
The Haynes Self Care for Minor Ailments has been written in close conjunction with the Self-Care Team at the Department of Health.
The contents of the manuals are as follows:
Contents
Self care — you are in charge . . . . . . . . . .2
Getting the best from your GP . . . . . . . . 4
Smoking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Stress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Medicines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Coughs, colds and flu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Cold sores . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Mouth ulcers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Headaches, fever and hangovers . . . . . . 11
Sickness & diarrhoea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Constipation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Indigestion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Burns & scalds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Back pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Useful contacts . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . Inside back cover
You can download a pdf of this manual at the following links:
Haynes Self Care Mini Manual Cover
Haynes Self Care Mini Manual Text
Copyright - Dr Ian Banks hold the copyright for all of the mini manuals, so please feel free to print off as many as you need. The MHF produce these resources so they can be used as much as possible, so feel free to pass copies onto colleagues, or anyone who might be interested in reading them.
NMHW2007 Mini Manuals
The Men's Health Forum have been involved in the production of 23 different mini manuals with various partners in NMHW. The ones that have been signed off can be found below in pdf format. As and when further manuals are signed of by respective partners, they will be added here.
Astellas - Enlarged Prostate
Astellas - Over Active Bladder
Asthma UK - Asthma
People can request manuals focusing on asthma by calling the Asthma UK Supporter & Information Team on 020 7786 5000 / emailing info@asthma.org.uk
Barking and Dagenham PCT - Alcohol
Barking and Dagenham PCT - Men as Carers
BUPA - Healthy Heart
Department of Health Cancer
MHF - Sexual Health
NIMHE/CSIP - Mental Health
The Orchid Cancer Appeal - Prostate Cancer
Pfizer - Smoking
The Prostate Cancer Research Foundation - Prostate Cancer
Roche - Kidney Disease
Royal Mail - Back Problems
Royal Mail - Blood Pressure
Royal Mail - Stress (workplace focused)
The Roy Castle Lung Foundation - Looking After Your Lungs
YMCA - Physical Activity
Tailor Made Mini Haynes Manuals
Haynes 'mini manuals' are a new development in gender-specific health promotion materials. The Men's Health Forum is at the forefront of producing such resources and has a track record of successfully doing so. They are very closely related to the best selling Haynes' men's health series and can be specifically molded to the requirements of partner organisations.
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