{"id":1021,"date":"2013-06-11T12:33:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T16:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hnetalk.com\/Member\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:07:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T14:07:43","slug":"men-what-are-we-to-do-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/men-what-are-we-to-do-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Men \u2013 What Are We to Do with You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1035 aligncenter\" alt=\"MensHealthMonth\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/03c4283.netsolhost.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MensHealthMonth-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MensHealthMonth.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MensHealthMonth.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Have you seen the billboards?\u00a0 The ones that declare:\u00a0 \u201cThis year, thousands of men will die from stubbornness.\u201d\u00a0 The purpose of these billboards is to encourage men to learn about the preventive medical care they need.\u00a0 The widely accepted assumption is that men are lax about seeing doctors and taking care of their health.\u00a0 Guess what?\u00a0 It\u2019s true!<\/p>\n<p>According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahrq.gov\">www.ahrq.gov<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Men are 24% less likely than women to have visited a doctor within the past year and are 22% more likely to have neglected their cholesterol tests.<\/li>\n<li>Men are 28% more likely than women to be hospitalized for congestive heart failure.<\/li>\n<li>Men are 32% more likely than women to be hospitalized for long-term complications of diabetes and are more than twice as likely as women to have a leg or foot amputated due to complications related to diabetes.<\/li>\n<li>Men are 24% more likely than women to be hospitalized for pneumonia that could have been prevented by getting an immunization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We all have lived in a state of denial at one time or another. It can be scary to find out what that bump is, or where that cough came from, or even why you\u2019re having trouble opening jars when it used to be so easy. Hardly anyone wants to admit there could be a problem and it might need treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Prevention is even harder to include among the must-dos for men.\u00a0 Got chest pain? Sure, call 911. \u00a0But finding out whether your blood pressure numbers are high, or your cholesterol levels are out-of-range, or admitting that smoking can kill you means you might have to do something about it when it is not an emergency situation.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why June is Men\u2019s Health Month!\u00a0 The purpose of Men\u2019s Health Month is to heighten awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys. \u00a0This month gives health care providers, public policy makers, the media, and individuals an opportunity to encourage men and boys to seek regular medical advice and early treatment for disease and injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Men\u2019s Health Network of Massachusetts is a very active organization whose goals are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>To reduce premature death among men<\/li>\n<li>To increase physical and mental health of men so that they can live fuller and happier lives<\/li>\n<li>To significantly reduce the cycles of violence and addiction that afflict many men<\/li>\n<li>To energize government involvement in men&#8217;s health activities and to encourage utilization of existing government health networks to increase the health and well-being of men<\/li>\n<li>To encourage women to expand their traditional roles as family health care leaders and activists for enhancement of health care services<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To find out more information and about how you can become involved, please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menshealthnetwork.org\/machapter\">http:\/\/www.menshealthnetwork.org\/machapter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you seen the billboards?\u00a0 The ones that declare:\u00a0 \u201cThis year, thousands of men will die from stubbornness.\u201d\u00a0 The purpose of these billboards is to encourage men to learn about the preventive medical care they need.\u00a0 The widely accepted assumption is that men are lax about seeing doctors and taking care of their health.\u00a0 Guess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,27],"tags":[210],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter","category-summer-2013","tag-mens-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MensHealthMonth.jpg?fit=400%2C267&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZGa-gt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4553,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/4553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hnetalk.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}