This week (June 15Third 21stay), The world is celebrating men’s health weekend, which is a time to raise awareness about health problems that influence men and boys inadvertently and open dialogue on prevention and skin detection.
Why do we need to talk about men’s health?
This week is certainly not just about health inequalities, but it is well known that it is important to consider that gender is a significant decisive decisive and that being a man or woman is “affecting” health in different ways. However, in most countries, including Australia and New Zealand, the health of men is poorer than women. For example, in Australia and New Zealand in 2015, men’s age was 4.2 years less than the expected women*.
Are men in high health risks?
There are some factors to consider when you think of a health status:
First of all, the game has individual factors, or how men care about their health. It is often said that when it comes to taking care of their health, men are their own worst enemies. In fact, a large percentage of men’s diseases is associated with individual lifestyle and drunkenness, smoking and lack of exercise.
Men adopt less health -promoting behaviors than women and are more likely to seek professional support, meet ordinary practitioners or talk about their physical and mental health with others. This is likely to be more than 20 % from a heart attack than women with early prevention lack, and diabetes is about 30 % more likely. Men are likely to die 3 times more than suicide or in a car accident.
If you add these individual factors to social and social and economic factors, you have a better understanding of the importance of a man’s Health Week.
In many Western societies, masculinity is often associated with attributes such as strength, stokes, freedom and self -reliance, and talking about emotions is often seen as a sign of weakness.
Young men also show dangerous and more carefree behavior because of their “unstable” feeling.
Finally, it has been difficult to reach and engage in male audience historically on health issues, especially because regular contact with their health services is less – but time is changing.
Men’s Health Week is a great opportunity to challenge all the cultural and psychological social ideas associated with men and encourage men to take physical and mental actions that they need to be as healthy as possible.
Education on precision health conditions
With a strategic health and fitness plan, responsible employers can play a vital role in stabilizing health literacy and stabilizing their self -care among men’s employees.
Steps such as health testing, health monitoring, seminars and workshops (such as male health seminars, smoking elimination seminars), mental health programs and health challenges can be far ahead in creating and maintaining positive health habits.
What are some precision points to reduce lifestyle risk factors?
Some of these stats are not difficult to change. Even small steps can really make a big difference. A person’s lifestyle affects how healthy they are, so things like physical activity, healthy diet, healthy weight and safe constipation reduce the risk of poor health.
Regular physical activity
In Australia and New Zealand, almost HALF half men are not physically dynamic. Low levels of physical activity are a major risk of chronic conditions. Physically dynamic, reduces the risk of heart disease, obesity, hypertension and hypertension. It has also been proven to improve mental health.
A balanced diet
In Australia less than 3 % of men ** Eat the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables every day. Balancing a balanced diet with many vegetables and fruits will help maintain a healthy weight by eating and eating excessive amounts of fat and sugar.
Precautionary psychological skills
Anxiety and sadness are silent killers in men and are often overlooked because many men find it difficult to recognize and talk about their emotions. Precautionary psychological skills can be learned and are very important to prevent the risk of mental health and promote emotional fitness and flexibility.
Limit alcohol and do not use tobacco
2 out of 2 Australian men ** are exceeding dangerous drinking guidelines (more than 4 standard drinks at one point) at the same time, and about 15 % of men smoke daily. Restricting the daily amount of alcohol will help prevent the risk of drugs, along with numerous potential health problems.
Be safe at work
It is a fact that more than 85 % of people killed in work in Australia and New Zealand are men and there are similar trends for workplace injuries. Establishment of “Safety First Culture” with clear injury prevention programs will help your male employees add to safety issues.
Find health care when needed
In order to run a prevention message, it is important that men and boys can take action soon and find treatment as symptoms or symptoms. We should all stimulate men and boys to regularly seek medical advice and early treatment of illness and injury. , And talk about what’s happening to them.
This week represents an excellent opportunity to start dialogue and create change. We all know that men do not like to talk about their health – but it is not needed and employers can play an important role in putting health measures to help their male employees maintain better health habits. Men can benefit from better awareness about health issues that affect them and in ways to avoid them. They should also be relieved to talk about them as much as possible and seek help wherever necessary.
Contact If we can help you and your employees’ health and fitness measures to advance health and literacy and self -care.
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*OECD, 2019.
** ABS 2018. National Health Survey
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