Men's Health Week - the TOP FIVE

20/05/25 . Blog

Over the past couple of decades, we’ve focused on all sorts of issues for Men’s Health Week.

This year we’re zooming in on training and the Men’s Health Strategy. But if that’s not for you, you have the pick of all the materials we’ve produced down the years. Here’s our Top 5 - a mix of our favourites and the most popular. You’re sure to find something to interest you here.

Beat Stress - mental health has become the hot topic in men’s health. It’s not as complicated as the gurus and influencers might like to make it. For MHW 2016 we produced a variety of simple resources including a video which calms me down every time I watch it. See more.
Man MOT - taking notice of bodies rather than taking them for granted is a key health message. For MHW 2022, just after Covid, we created Man MOT manuals, training and of course, loads of free resources to encourage us to do the checks and take the challenges needed to keep us at the top of our game, physically and mentally. See more.
Know your Numbers - Men are supposedly obsessed with numbers but when it comes to our own health, there are quite a few we don’t know. For MHW 2019, we tried to put that right. All the usual freebies plus a quiz. (My local GP still has the posters up in the waiting area.) See more.
Men’s health and the Internet - for MHW 2023, the sixteenth birthday of the iPhone (born 2007), we asked what are the implications for men’s health of all of us walking around with a high-performance computer in our pocket? See more. In fact, the importance of this question is snowballing at quite a rate - one of the reasons for our new training workshop on Masculinity and Men’s Health.
A toss-up here between MHW 2017, MHW 2018 and MHW 2024 - the weeks we've dealt with specific issues that are increasingly important. MHW 2017 was all about belly fat: a type of fat that's bad for your health and which men are more likely to have. MHW 2018 focused on diabetes - both prevention of the disease and living with it. MHW 2024 was about the prostate: a small organ that, as prostate cancer cases rise, can have a big impact on a man’s life.

There are plenty more weeks to chose from. You can see them all on our website or find the free downloads directly in the shop.

Have a great Men's Health Week (9th-15th June)

Discount in the shop

And to say thanks for supporting Men's Health Week down the years we're also offering 10% off manuals and training in our shop. Just use the code MHW25-10 before 6th June.

Jim Pollard,
Editor

The Men’s Health Forum need your support

It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking.

In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to.

It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for.

We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing.

Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.