Men’s health will be under the spotlight in Wirral in April – and organisers are using football as the carrot to tempt them into taking part.
A free football-themed health event – for men who don’t want to be left on the subs bench – will kick off at Tranmere Rovers at 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, 26th April. The programme includes:
An opportunity to meet Eric Nixon
Football skills competitions
Display of superbikes and cruisers (courtesy of Marriott Motorcycles)
A close-up of the Vauxhall VXR range (courtesy of Lookers, Wirral)
Live broadcast from the radio Merseyside BBC bus
A win-a-new-bike competition
A roller cycling challenge
A display of army vehicles
Giant Genga
Plus a team of health professionals offering free health assessments and general advice on men’s health issues
The event – aimed at all ages - is being organised by Wirral Primary Care Trust’s Health and Wellbeing Team to encourage local men and youths to be more pro-active about their health.
Said Joint Director of Public Health, Jane Harvey, “We wanted to offer something a little bit different to get them through the door so that we can help them see what they could be doing to improve their self-care”.
According to the Men’s Health Forum, which exists to improve men’s health in England and Wales, 1 in 3 people in the UK live with a long-term medical condition and a significant proportion of this number will be men.
However, health promotion campaigns often fail to take account of the need for 'gender-sensitivity' in reaching male audiences. Men may be unaware that they are living with a chronic condition. For example, an estimated 3% of men aged 35 and over have undiagnosed diabetes and many men also live with long-term mental health problems such as anxiety or depression
And more than 30,000 men in the UK are diagnosed each year with prostate cancer, many of whom live with it for many years with or without treatment.
For more information please contact Carol Howard, Health Improvement Projects Manager, Health and Wellbeing Team, Wirral Primary Care NHS Trust on 0151 630 8383.
A free football-themed health event – for men who don’t want to be left on the subs bench – will kick off at Tranmere Rovers at 2.30 p.m. on Thursday, 26th April. The programme includes:
An opportunity to meet Eric Nixon
Football skills competitions
Display of superbikes and cruisers (courtesy of Marriott Motorcycles)
A close-up of the Vauxhall VXR range (courtesy of Lookers, Wirral)
Live broadcast from the radio Merseyside BBC bus
A win-a-new-bike competition
A roller cycling challenge
A display of army vehicles
Giant Genga
Plus a team of health professionals offering free health assessments and general advice on men’s health issues
The event – aimed at all ages - is being organised by Wirral Primary Care Trust’s Health and Wellbeing Team to encourage local men and youths to be more pro-active about their health.
Said Joint Director of Public Health, Jane Harvey, “We wanted to offer something a little bit different to get them through the door so that we can help them see what they could be doing to improve their self-care”.
According to the Men’s Health Forum, which exists to improve men’s health in England and Wales, 1 in 3 people in the UK live with a long-term medical condition and a significant proportion of this number will be men.
However, health promotion campaigns often fail to take account of the need for 'gender-sensitivity' in reaching male audiences. Men may be unaware that they are living with a chronic condition. For example, an estimated 3% of men aged 35 and over have undiagnosed diabetes and many men also live with long-term mental health problems such as anxiety or depression
And more than 30,000 men in the UK are diagnosed each year with prostate cancer, many of whom live with it for many years with or without treatment.
For more information please contact Carol Howard, Health Improvement Projects Manager, Health and Wellbeing Team, Wirral Primary Care NHS Trust on 0151 630 8383.
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