National Men's Health Week -- June 12 - 18, 2006

I would like to encourage RTs to help celebrate National Men's Health Week, June 12th - 18th, 2006. If you think this week has nothing to do with women, think again. How healthy men are also affects women according to Congressman Bill Richardson who said, "Recognizing and preventing men's health problems is not jus a man's issue. Because of its impact on wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters, men's health is truly a family affair" (Congressional Record, May 24, 1994).

There are several web sites that offer information helpful to celebrating National Men's Health Week. Among them are the Men's Heatlh Week web site that provides a history of how Senator Bob Dole and others started Men's Health Week. From that site you will also be able to find Men's Health Week items for purchase, including the Prostate Stress Ball. The address is http://menshealthweek.org/

The CDC and the Men's Health Network also have web sites specifically related to men's health. These sites offer men information on being healthy and Men's Health Week provides a time for men to start improving their health -- and for RTs to assist in this enterprise.