Early this morning out beach walking I stumbled across this banner and discovered it is a men’s group and considering it’s officially “Men’s Health Week” 14-20 June 2021 I wanted to share this great initiative. Check them out, they meet 3 times a week: #run #swim #coffee #chat   

@mongrelsmen 1 in 3 men between the ages of 30-65 have no social connections.  Why?  Work, family commitments and life.  Its time to turn this around. Based on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Mongrels Men is a community driven charity supporting men’s mental health through sport and exercise. #mongrelsmen #deewhybeach #bettermentalhealth #mensgroup #keepingitlocal www.mongrelsmen.com

ABOUT THE WEEK

Why is Australian male health so in need of attention? Why work on men’s health?

Good question!

Because the health status of males in most countries, including Australia, is generally poorer than that of females. More males die at every stages through the life course, more males have accidents, more males take their own lives and more males suffer from lifestyle-related health conditions than females at the same age.

Meanwhile, men are less frequent visitors to general practitioners, and the perception is that they don’t care about health or that health services are not well-prepared to interact with men effectively. But that’s not what Men’s Health Week is about!

Men’s Health Week was started in the United States by the US Congress in 1994 to heighten awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys. In Australia, there were small and localised Men’s Health Week events in Victoria and then in New South Wales from about 2000 onwards.

In 2002, the 2nd World Congress Of Men’s Health was held in Vienna and brought together six leading men’s health organisations including MHIRC to run international events in June each year, just before the United States and United Kingdom Father’s Day.

THE VIENNA MEN’S HEALTH DECLARATION – The Vienna Declaration set out to establish:

• Recognizing men’s health is a critical issue and that there are health issues which only affect men
• Promoting awareness of men’s approach to health
• Changing the way health care is provided to be more sensitive towards men’s needs
• Creating school and community programs which target boys and young men
• Connecting health and social policies to better pursue men’s health goals

In Australia, Men’s Health Week provides a platform for challenging and debating key issues in men’s health and to raise the profile of men, their health outcomes and health needs around the country each June. Our approach celebrates the strengths of men, the contributions they make and the important role they play in society. It is as much as week of celebration and engagement of men with a serving of health on the side!

We are pleased to congratulate Sherin Nijar for receiving our August ‘Temp of the Month’. We love receiving feedback from our temps and host employers. A big congratulations to you Sherin, well deserved!

Sherin:

”I love working here as the people are very easy to get along with and have made me feel very much part of the team – despite being the only temp! Work is busy, and the effort I have put in always gets noticed and remarked on which is encouraging”.

Host Employer:

”The COVID19 pandemic has presented our organisation with a number of challenges as we try to maintain a consistent supply of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to our customers. Since February, we’ve needed to place 95% of our Surgical portfolio on constraint and provide a manual allocation of product to our customers – This is a challenging task given the significant increase in opportunistic customer requests putting additional strain on our supply chain. 

Fortunately we have had Sherin managing the constraint process for us, she works closely with our Commercial and Supply teams, our external Logistics partners and directly with our customers to provide product solutions where possible. There are certainly frustrations from our customers at times as we are not always in a position to provide all that is requested – Her positive can-do attitude is definitely an asset for us during these sometimes-difficult customer conversations”. 

#peninsulapersonnel #keepingitlocal #tempofthemonth #congratulations #localpeopleinlocalroles