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Men's Health Week 2021
All the links for Men's Health Week 2021
This was our content for Men's Health Week 2021
Everybody's mental health has been challenged by the lockdowns and insecurities of the last year and it's not over. As we emerge from what we hope will be the worst of the pandemic, questions, concerns and anxieties remain. Men's Health Week 2021 (14-20 June) asks: how do we move forward?
The CAN DO Challenge
There are five days of the week and five ways to wellbeing. Can you see where we're going with this? We're calling on everyone to choose a different way to wellbeing to try each day of Men's Health Week. At the week-end, pick your favourites and do them again!
Follow the CAN DO Challenge link.
Sounds fun. What else have you got?
As well as stuff for the CAN DO Challenge, we have all sorts of free materials:
- encouraging us to talk about how we feel about where we are now in the Covid-19 pandemic - Better mental health in a Covid world
- calling for a Men's Health Strategy - Covid-19: no going back
Follow the free materials link.
Is there a new Man Manual this year?
Yes. We are launching a new manual on penis health: Size Isn't Everything. Answering the most common questions about the male tackle, it's available as a free download for the week or you can buy a hard copy at £3.95.
If we're coming out of Covid, why does mental health matter?
Even before the pandemic, men's mental health was a cause for concern. There is a grave disparity in the high number of men who die from suicide and the low number of men who seek treatment for depression, anxiety and other mental health challenges.
During the pandemic, children and young people have been disproportionately affected by lockdowns. There has also been a considerable rise in youth unemployment, while home-schooling has hit boys and young men at school and university, especially from BAME backgrounds.
Particular groups of male-dominated workforces have suffered disproportionately in terms of income and some (taxi drivers, for example) have received little support from government to compensate for this loss. Men are more likely to be in the sort of jobs that cannot easily be done from home with the result that many male-dominated workforces are also at greater risk from Covid-19.
A Men's Health Strategy?
The UK parliament, the Welsh Senedd and the Scottish Assembly will all be sitting during Men's Health Week this year.
Yes, we need an enquiry into why the UK has one of poorest records internationally when it comes to preventing Covid deaths - but we also need action now. As with individuals, it's never too late for governments to take action on mental health.
The UK government have already committed to a Women's Health Strategy. This is the ideal time to launch a Men's Health Strategy.
You can also find the free materials and everything else from previous weeks by following the Men's Health Week link.
Key links for June 2021
- MHW 'Home' Page
- The Can Do Challenge
- FREE new manual: Size Isn't Everything
- FREE materials
- Sign the petition
- Man MOT for the Mind £3.95
- Make a donation
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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.
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