{"id":18588,"date":"2020-06-03T13:31:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T13:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/pnr\/?p=18588"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:44:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:44:28","slug":"consumer-health-minute-mens-health","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-mens-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Health Minute: Men&#8217;s Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Father&#8217;s Day is June 21 and many will be celebrating the fathers and sons in their families. June is also Men&#8217;s Health Month and is a great time to highlight the importance of health and wellness of the men in your community.<\/p>\n<p>Men tend to put off preventative health measures such as regular check-ups as well as checking in with a health professional for medical care. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db355.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CDC<\/a> states that men live an average of 5 years less than women. Your library or organization can promote men&#8217;s health for all ages with simple social media messages, highlighting web resources, wearing blue, and more.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nnlm.gov\/all-of-us\/national-health-observances#toc-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NNLM<\/a> provides an electronic bulletin slide as well as a program kit with resources and program ideas.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov\/omh\/content.aspx?ID=10238\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Office of Minority Health<\/a> also provides social media tools as well as information about Wear Blue Day (June 19).<\/li>\n<li>Refer your patrons to the MedlinePlus health topic page, <a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/menshealth.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Men&#8217;s Health<\/a>, for information and tips to stay healthy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father&#8217;s Day is June 21 and many will be celebrating the fathers and sons in their families. June is also Men&#8217;s Health Month and is a great time to highlight the importance of health and wellness of the men in your community. Men tend to put off preventative health measures such as regular check-ups as&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-mens-health\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":""},"categories":[316,457,9,10],"tags":[262,179],"class_list":["post-18588","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-health","category-consumer-health-minute","category-health-literacy","category-health-observances","tag-mens-health","tag-national-health-observances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18590,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18588\/revisions\/18590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}