What men really want: A qualitative investigation of men's health needs from the Halton and St Helens Primary Care Trust men's health promotion project

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 921-939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Coles ◽  
Francine Watkins ◽  
Viren Swami ◽  
Susan Jones ◽  
Susan Woolf ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Primary Care Trust ◽  
Men’S Health ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Men's Health ◽  
Qualitative Investigation

MAN Model: Health Promotion

2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Denner
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Culturally Relevant ◽  
Men’S Health ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
Health Programs ◽  
Men's Health ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Prevention And Health Promotion

Despite the efforts of the health care industry to raise men's awareness and participation in attending to their own health needs, men continue to be very poor consumers of health care services (Gibson & Denner, 2000). The MAN model is a model of disease prevention and health promotion that seeks to improve and create pathways for men and adolescents to better access the Health Care System (Gibson & Denner, 2000). If men at present do not come to the health services, then men's health programs may need to journey to where men are gathered. The MAN Model was developed to address specifically this problem of reaching men and getting them to discuss their health concerns in a culturally relevant way. Apart from social and sporting venues, the workplace also represents another significant culturally relevant site for men's health discussions. Men's health in the workplace is subject to the same social, economic, cultural and environmental factors as health in the community (Noblet & Murphy, 1995). The MAN Model has developed a pathway for the education and empowerment of males to deal with their health needs preventively rather than reactively both in the community and the workplace.

Silent cries: reflections on men’s health promotion

2002 ◽  
pp. 226-237
Author(s):  
Linda Jones ◽  
Moyra Sidell ◽  
Jenny Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Men’S Health ◽  
Men's Health

Community-based men’s health promotion programs: eight lessons learnt and their caveats

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 1230-1240 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L Oliffe ◽  
Emma Rossnagel ◽  
Joan L Bottorff ◽  
Suzanne K Chambers ◽  
Cristina Caperchione ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Men’S Health ◽  
Men's Health ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Lessons Learnt ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
Health Promotion Programs ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Future Work

Abstract Long-standing commentaries about men’s reticence for accessing clinical medical services, along with the more recent recognition of men’s health inequities, has driven work in community-based men’s health promotion. Indeed, the 2000s have seen rapid growth in community-based programs targeting men, and across this expanse of innovative work, experiential and empirical insights afford some important lessons learnt, and caveats to guide existing and future efforts. The current article offers eight lessons learnt regarding the design, content, recruitment, delivery, evaluation and scaling of community-based men’s health promotion programs. Design lessons include the need to address social determinants of health and men’s health inequities, build activity-based programming, garner men’s permission and affirmation to shift masculine norms, and integrate content to advance men’s health literacy. Also detailed are lessons learnt about men-friendly spaces, recruitment and retention strategies, the need to incrementally execute program evaluations, and the limits for program sustainability and scaling. Drawing from diverse community-based programs to illustrate the lessons learnt, caveats are also detailed to contextualize and caution some aspects of the lessons that are shared. The express aim of discussing lessons learnt and their caveats, reflected in the purpose of the current article, is to guide existing and future work in the ever growing field of community-based men’s health promotion.

Canadian Men’s Health Literacy: A Nationally Representative Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 993-1003 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Oliffe ◽  
Donald R. McCreary ◽  
Nick Black ◽  
Ryan Flannigan ◽  
S. Larry Goldenberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Men’S Health ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
Men's Health ◽  
Low Health Literacy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Promotion Programs

Though men’s health promotion has attracted increased research attention, conspicuously absent have been empirical insights to health literacy levels within and across male subgroups. Recent advancements in the measurement of health literacy have made available avenues for evaluating individual and social determinants of health literacy. Important insights can be drawn to detail patterns and diversity among men as a means to informing the design, implementation, and evaluation of tailored health promotion programs. Drawing on 2000 Canada-based men’s responses to the Health Literacy Questionnaire, correlations between demographic variables and six health literacy scales are described. Low income, low education, and living alone were associated with men’s low health literacy, with the strongest effect sizes for the “Social support for health” and “Actively engaged with health care professionals” scales. Multiple linear regressions confirmed low income as the strongest predictor of men’s low health literacy in all the scales except “Appraisal of health information.” Low income, self-identifying as gay, bisexual, or other, and living alone were strongly predictive of low scores on the “Social support for health” scale. The findings affirm the importance of considering men’s health literacy and inequities to advance effective men’s health promotion programs.

scholarly journals Equity, gender and health: New directions for global men’s health promotion

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Smith ◽  
Daphne C. Watkins ◽  
Derek M. Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Men’S Health ◽  
Men's Health ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Gender And Health

scholarly journals Men’s health literacy: a review and recommendations

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 1037-1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L Oliffe ◽  
Emma Rossnagel ◽  
Mary T Kelly ◽  
Joan L Bottorff ◽  
Cherisse Seaton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Men’S Health ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Men's Health ◽  
Colon Cancers ◽  
Health Promotion Programs

Abstract Although men’s health promotion efforts have attracted programmatic and evaluative research, conspicuously absent are gendered insights to men’s health literacy. The current scoping review article shares the findings drawn from 12 published articles addressing men’s health literacy in a range of health and illness contexts. Evident was consensus that approaches tailored to men’s everyday language and delivered in familiar community-based spaces were central to advancing men’s health literacy, and, by extension, the effectiveness of men’s health promotion programs. However, most men’s health literacy studies focussed on medical knowledge of disease contexts including prostate and colon cancers, while diversity was evident regards conceptual frameworks and/or methods and measures for evaluating men’s health literacy. Despite evidence that low levels of health literacy fuel stigma and men’s reticence for health help-seeking, and that tailoring programs to health literacy levels is requisite to effective men’s health promotion efforts, the field of men’s health literacy remains underdeveloped. Based on the scoping review findings, recommendations for future research include integrating men’s health literacy research as a needs analysis to more effectively design and evaluate targeted men’s health promotion programs.

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