Skip to main content

Men's Health Week 14th - 20th June 2021

By

 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.

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.

The Men’s Health Forum states that 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. With this in mind, they are hoping to engage with:

  • all men but especially younger men (and boys), men at work and men dealing with bereavement
  • all the UK's parliaments and assemblies - Westminster, the Welsh Senedd and the Scottish Assembly will all be sitting during Men's Health Week this year.

For more information surrounding Men’s Health, please visit the Men’s Health Forum and NHS websites:

https://www.menshealthforum.org.uk/

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/mens-health/

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES

For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of and supporting men to speak about their health concerns, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

BOOKS:

  • Men's health / Kirby, R. S, 2009 3rd edition [New York, NY : Informa Healthcare] – ebook.

JOURNALS:

  • Harvard Men's Health Watch / Boston, MA : Harvard Medical School Health Publications. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2002 onwards.]
  • Men's Health (UK) / Hearst Magazines UK. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1990 onwards.]
  • American Journal of Men's Health / Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, Inc. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2007 onwards.]
  • Psychology of men and masculinity / Washington, D.C. : Educational Pub. Foundation. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2000 onwards.]
  • International Journal of Men’s Health / Harriman, TN : Men's Studies Press. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2004 onwards.]
  • Mental Health and Social Inclusion / Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2003 onwards with 1 year embargo]
  • Journal of Mental Health / Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Carfax International Publishers. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1992 onwards & as a NHS ejournal 1992 onwards with 18 months embargo]
  • The Aging Male / Taylor & Francis. [Available as a NHS ejournal 2003 onwards with 18 months embargo]

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

  • Stana, Alexandru, PHD; Flynn, Mark A, PHD; Almeida, Eugenie, PHD. “Battling the Stigma: Combat Veterans' Use of Social Support in an Online PTSD Forum”, International Journal of Men's Health, 2017 Vol. 16, Pt. 1  pp. 20-36. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Holden, Carol A ; Collins, Veronica R ; Anderson, Christopher J et al, “Men's health - a little in the shadow": a formative evaluation of medical curriculum enhancement with men's health teaching and learning”, BMC medical education, 2015, Vol.15 Pt. 1, pp. 210-210. Doi: 10.1186/s12909-015-0489-9. [Available via Keele ejournals and Open Access]
  • Mikorski, Renee; Szymanski, Dawn M.; Carretta, Rachel F. “Masculine norms and readiness for change among men in substance abuse treatment.” Psychology of Men & Masculinities, 2020 Vol 21 Pt.4 pp. 518-522. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Purnell, Larry “Men’s Health Awareness”, Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 2019, Vol. 30 Pt.6, pp.538-539. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Shehzad Basaria, MD “Bringing Men’s Health Into the Limelight”, The Journals of Gerontology: Series A, 2019 Vol. 74 Pt. 6 pp. 817–819. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Harland N, Stenzl A, Todenhöfer T, “Role of Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Predicting Pathologic Outcomes in Prostate Cancer.” The World Journal of Men's Health, 2020, Vol.39 Pt.1 pp. 38-47. [Open access article].
  • Milner, Allison; Shields, Marissa et al, “Health Literacy in Male-Dominated Occupations”, American Journal of Men's Health, 2020 Vol. 14, Pt. 5 pp. 1-9. [Available via Keele ejournals].
  • Wang Y, Hunt K, Nazareth I, et al, “Do men consult less than women? An analysis of routinely collected UK general practice data”, BMJ Open, 2013;3:e003320. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003320. [Open access article.]
  • Griffith, Derek M., “"I AM a Man": Manhood, Minority Men's Health and Health Equity.” Ethnicity & Disease, Vol. 25 (3), pp. 287-93. 7 Aug. 2015, doi:10.18865/ed.25.3.287. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Oliffe, John L et al. “Men's health literacy: a review and recommendations.” Health promotion international vol. 35,5 (2020): 1037-1051. doi:10.1093/heapro/daz077. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Teh J, Wei J, Chiang G, Nzenza TC, Bolton D, Lawrentschuk N., “Men's health on the web: an analysis of current resources”. World Journal of Urology, 2019, Vol. 37 (6), pp.1043-1047. doi: 10.1007/s00345-019-02670-5. Epub 2019 Feb 12. PMID: 30756151. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].
  • Steele, Amie; Carter, Trista, “Balancing our gaze on preconception health and care to include men”, Advances in Integrative Medicine, Vol. 8 (2), 20201, pp. 79-80. [Available via NHS ejournals & Open access]

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:

  • Health Talk – can search for various conditions and view videos of people sharing their experiences www.healthtalk.org

CURRENT AWARENESS

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

NHS resources are changing from the 30th June 2025

By
  A range of our resources for NHS customers are purchased by NHS England as a national Core Content offering. At the end of June 2025, the content of the core collection is changing.  You may find some resources are no longer available to you. Specifically affected are the Oxford Handbooks e-books and access to a range of ProQuest databases.   Oxford Handbooks: Some Oxford Handbooks are being replaced by locally purchased e-book access. We also have a range of Oxford Handbooks available in print from the health libraries. To find our local resources - in the NHS Knowledge and Libraries Hub search for Oxford Handbook. Then select the limiter 'Library Catalogue only'. Limiters are located on the left hand side of the screen. Both local e-books and print books will then show in the results. The Knowledge and Library Hub can be accessed via this link NHS Knowledge and Libraries Hub or by clicking on the Knowledge and Libraries Hub icon on the desktop on a UHNM com...
Post a Comment
Read more

Protect your searches, alerts and articles/references ahead of change to NHS Knowledge and Library Hub.

By
  In early July the interface for the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub will have a new look and functionality; using EBSCO’s new user interface. Ahead of the change we have been alerted that if users have created search alerts saved searches in customer folders saved bibliographic details of items they need to take steps to help their information carry over to the new system. Take these steps now to be ready for the change. It is advisable to do this before 1 st July.   1)    Search Alerts Search alerts will not carryover to the new system. Instead – users are advised to find their alert and save it as a saved search instead. Once the new interface is live, the search can be re-run and users should be able to set up a new alert. How do I save my search alert as a saved search instead? Go to the NHS Knowledge and Library Hub and sign in with your NHS OpenAthens account. Click on ‘Folder’ in the blue section at the top of the screen You will be ...
Post a Comment
Read more

More Journals now accessible online for UHNS Athens Users

By
UHNS staff can now access: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery Gastroenterology Pain Tuberculosis online using your NHS Athens username and password. These titles are available via the Elsevier ScienceDirect database. To find our subscribed journal titles go to the NHS My Journals link from our journals page http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/ , and login with your NHS Athens username.
Post a Comment
Read more