Male health campaigns, where are they?

[MaxSo]

Stop whinging and start a campaign if you are that bothered.

[mx5nut]

Randy Winkman said:

That's the point …… you grow a moustache, tell all of your friends and colleagues about the issues and raise money. That's what a couple of fellas at work and I did. After we'd all done it by email we had a cake sale at work and raised some more money and handed out info on the topic. So you can do it too, rather than expect others to do it. That's how awareness raising works. Do you want the government to do TV ads on this stuff?

[Cold]

There's your answer, OP. The consensus is that the reason why we don't have any male health campaigns is because you haven't started one. It's your fault.
That must be quite a helpful insight to your query.



Mind you, I quite liked the suggestion of stopping "winging" as winging can be quite a dangerous sport. (I wonder what the intended insult actually was? )

[Randy Winkman]

By the way OP, when we raised money for men's health issues in "Movember", nobody told us we were misogynist and we got just as much support from women as men.

[4x4Tyke]

Cold said:

There's your answer, OP. The consensus is that the reason why we don't have any male health campaigns is because you haven't started one. It's your fault.
That must be quite a helpful insight to your query.

Mind you, I quite liked the suggestion of stopping "winging" as winging can be quite a dangerous sport. (I wonder what the intended insult actually was? )

Yep, perhaps I should and go look after my own interests, doubly ironic given that I'm also being accused of being anti-leftie.

I'm not going to give up that easily, but just point out that nobody has yet, even said they know the symptoms of prostrate or testical cancer, never mind drawn attention to them.

Edited by 4x4Tyke on Friday 21st September 09:46

[DanL]

4x4Tyke said:

I'm not going to give up that easily, but just point out that nobody has yet, even said they know the symptoms of prostrate or testical cancer, never mind drawn attention to them.

Testicular cancer is checked by feeling your testicular for lumps. You may recall a campaign a few years ago that encouraged men to have a rummage (or words to that effect) while they were in the shower. Robbie Williams was one of the “faces” of it, as I recall...

https://uk.movember.com/mens-health/testicular-can...

Prostate cancer is tricky because there aren’t really any early symptoms other than possibly back pain or a change in the way you pee (either trouble starting or trouble stopping).

https://prostatecanceruk.org/prostate-information/...

I knew the testicular cancer one due to a campaign - I’ll admit I had to look prorate cancer up! I do recall that Bob Monkhouse was involved in an awareness campaign after his death.

[chow pan toon]

If you watch football then you can't have missed the prostate cancer campaign that has been going on forever. If you don't watch football then you were probably busy checking your boobs or something.

[chow pan toon]

DanL said:

Testicular cancer is checked by feeling your testicular for lumps. You may recall a campaign a few years ago that encouraged men to have a rummage (or words to that effect) while they were in the shower. Robbie Williams was one of the “faces” of it, as I recall...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu2K4eIqxd4
How could anyone forget that campaign

[Roofless Toothless]

Did you know that when England won the World Cup and that famous picture was taken of Bobby Moore holding the trophy up on the shoulders of his teammates, he had already had a testicle removed because of cancer?

We didn't talk about things like that in those days.

[Wobbegong]

chow pan toon said:

DanL said:

Testicular cancer is checked by feeling your testicular for lumps. You may recall a campaign a few years ago that encouraged men to have a rummage (or words to that effect) while they were in the shower. Robbie Williams was one of the “faces” of it, as I recall...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu2K4eIqxd4
How could anyone forget that campaign

I’d forgot how lovely she is

[Dindoit]

4x4Tyke said:

That is rather missing my point, it's fine raising funds for research by growing a tash and I've donated when colleagues have done it the last two years, but where are the actual awareness campaigns?

Movember is literally an awareness campaign.

[eccles]

4x4Tyke said:

Where is the mass media awareness, it's actually practically non-existent.

Apart from the 'blood in pee' campaign that's all over TV at the moment.

[Shakermaker]

chow pan toon said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu2K4eIqxd4
How could anyone forget that campaign

I can't open the link but can I be hopeful it is the one with Rachel from S Club 7 in it?

I'd much rather have her checking my plums than Robbie fking Williams...

Anyway, another campaign I've started seeing recently - via facebook - is for Mental Health/Suicide Prevention, its got Eamonn Holmes, its got Piers Morgan, it has some chaps I don't recognise but I presume are either footballers or soap actors. Its aimed at men, currently being seen by "Men who use Facebook" of course, but that's quite a big number so far.

These campaigns need time to mature, to get the bigger public awareness. When they have that bigger pool of funds they can spend more on promotion, and no doubt there will be a big company name involved. You know how Tesco sponsor Race for Life, Sainsburys sponsor Comic Relief etc. Yes they have the Football involved - a great tie in considering the number of men who watch football. I also seem to recall that someone like Gilette Razors are involved in one of the campaigns too?

[Randy Winkman]

Dindoit said:

4x4Tyke said:

That is rather missing my point, it's fine raising funds for research by growing a tash and I've donated when colleagues have done it the last two years, but where are the actual awareness campaigns?

Movember is literally an awareness campaign.

Exactly, my tash was an awareness campaign on legs.

[Europa1]

eccles said:

4x4Tyke said:

Where is the mass media awareness, it's actually practically non-existent.

Apart from the 'blood in pee' campaign that's all over TV at the moment.

Indeed; I found OP's post somewhat surprising in light of that. There was also the campaign regarding getting persistent coughs checked out, which as I recall exclusively featured men.

[g3org3y]

chrispmartha said:

TTwiggy said:

I am not unusual.

Tom Jones Syndrome?

[AppleJuice]

TTwiggy said:

Roofless Toothless said:

TTwiggy said:

Men don't care about their own health - HTH

I'm a case in point. I'm 46, I last went to the doctors aged 11.

Have they descended yet?

Huge and swinging. Thanks for your interest.

But enough about your bogeys...

(get a bloody handkerchief!)

[sparkythecat]

Women get automatically called in by health service providers every few years, for breast cancer screening mammograms and for cervical cancer screening smear tests.
There is however, no similar automatic call in for men to have either testicular or prostate cancer screening tests.
Why is this?

[kowalski655]

There was a radio campaign recently (last year IIRC) about checking your bum & using the bowel cancer kits everyone gets sent at about 50 years old(up here in Jockland at least)

[DanL]

sparkythecat said:

Women get automatically called in by health service providers every few years, for breast cancer screening mammograms and for cervical cancer screening smear tests.
There is however, no similar automatic call in for men to have either testicular or prostate cancer screening tests.
Why is this?

Because you can check for testicular cancer yourself, and prostate cancer is something that typically impacts the over 50’s and is checked by having a finger poked up where many are reluctant to have a finger, so take up would likely be low?