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

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 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

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