Promoting Health and Wellbeing: The Concept of Men Shed

PROMOTING HEALTH
AND WELLBEING

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Health and wellbeing is one of the major aspect with relation to men and women. But
although men are highly exposed to illness and risk because of the exposure of mental stress and
various other diseases. This means that along with the raising threat of getting affected and
exposed to health risk, the concept of Men Shed is started in 1990 in Australia that enable the
best space which would lead to raise the health consciousness among men (Foster, Munoz and
Leslie, 2018). This essay will discuss the aspect of health and wellbeing along with the concept
of Men Shed. Likewise, a discussion of various social determinant would also be a part of this
essay.
MAIN BODY
Health and wellbeing is one of the major concept that has lead to the emergence of
community men group which is called Men’s Shed. Men have lower expectancy than women
and they are more susceptible to illness. As per the intervention it was observed that men have
lower life expectancy and are more inclined towards the health issues.
Alcohol consumption and poor lifestyle is one of the major cause that is associated with the
poor life expectancy and illness. Along with the habit of excessive drinking and suspect towards
the early retirement would lead to raise loneliness in the life of men which would lead to have a
direct impact towards the health of men (Kelly and et.al., 2019). This may be related with the
occurrence to cardiovascular diseases in the old age and poor mental health that would lead to
raise the bad habits that would ultimately affect the health of men.
Exposure towards the unemployment with the changing market situation, raising of pressure
that is related with the maintenance of family also lead to raise the mental pressure among men.
This would further assist in the occurrence of poor health and related issues. In the same way
retirement and loss of work is also an important reason that would lead to the occurrence of
social isolation and loneliness. This is because with the loss of work a man loose its social circle,
its colleagues and friends. This would lead to affect the men because it creates the situation in
which there would be no support for the men’s mental peace and health and as a result raise the
stress situation. This is also having a direct association with wellbeing and raising of mental
illness.