Glasshouse Partnership » Men’s Health Forum http://www.glasshousepartnership.com Glasshouse Partnership provides online and offline reputation management and social communication services. Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:35:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Mens Health & Politics http://www.glasshousepartnership.com/blog/mens-health-politics/ http://www.glasshousepartnership.com/blog/mens-health-politics/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:07:13 +0000 James Thellusson http://www.glasshousepartnership.com/?p=1002 Mens Health Forum, has finalised the agenda for its autumn conference on the role of sport and sport stadia in improving men’s health. Speakers will include Pam Rodway from the Soil Association, Professor Alan White, Centre for Mens Health and Andy Reed MP as well as others from the worlds of sport, politics and public health. The conference takes place…]]> Glasshouse Partnership’s client, Mens Health Forum, has finalised the agenda for its autumn conference on the role of sport and sport stadia in improving men’s health. Speakers will include Pam Rodway from the Soil Association, Professor Alan White, Centre for Mens Health and Andy Reed MP as well as others from the worlds of sport, politics and public health.

The conference takes place on October 30 at the Manchester City Stadium. The conference will be free to relevant interested parties. Post Olympics, the forum will be an interesting moment to review how sport can best be utilised to address men’s health problems in the run up to the Olympics. 

If you are interested contact info@stadiumcommunities.org.uk  or read game-of-2-halves-flyer.

]]> http://www.glasshousepartnership.com/blog/mens-health-politics/feed/ 0 Men’s Health: time for a new policy? http://www.glasshousepartnership.com/blog/mens-health-time-for-a-new-policy/ http://www.glasshousepartnership.com/blog/mens-health-time-for-a-new-policy/#comments Fri, 23 May 2008 16:01:35 +0000 James Thellusson http://www.glasshousepartnership.com/?p=941 Men’s Health Forum (MHF) campaign to improve the health of men in the UK. Hard to think of men as a ‘minority’ or disadvantaged group, right? Well, the facts are they live shorter lives, take more health risks and often have higher incidences of cancer and other diseases. Of course, they don’t help themselves by toughing it out in the…]]> The Men’s Health Forum (MHF) campaign to improve the health of men in the UK. Hard to think of men as a ‘minority’ or disadvantaged group, right? Well, the facts are they live shorter lives, take more health risks and often have higher incidences of cancer and other diseases. Of course, they don’t help themselves by toughing it out in the face of pain. From a social marketing perspective, they’re also resistant to communications and campaigns.

Sport might be a solution to that social marketing challenge, you’d think?.

But have sport and health got their act together?

Not well enough is the answer, according Peter Baker, CEO of the MHF. The MHF, who work with Glasshouse, have called for a new review of how sport and health should work together and the development of a new national sports / health policy. If you’re interested in either agenda, visit the Guardian to get a better view of the MHF point of view.

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