Men's Sheds Intervention for Promoting Health and Well-being

Promoting health and
well-being

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The holistic definition of health and well being define as the combination of physical,
social, emotional and intellectual factors. Whereas, other studies describe as health and well
being is a absence of physical illness, disease and also mental distress. (Normanand and et. al.,
2021) Further, it has been considered to be negative definition of the concept. In context with
positive definition, study state that health and well-being is termed to be the achievement as well
as maintenance of physical fitness and also mental stability. It has been considered that men
debits lower life expectancy as compared to females and also more likely to susceptible to acute
death leading diseases.
It has been observed that men are most likely to get influence by harmful practices and
less likely to involve health seeking pattern. A gendered based intervention, that has also known
as Men Sheds movement which has been introduced in Australia in 1980s, that have further
adopted by otter states and countries such as UK, Ireland etc. (Men's Sheds: A conceptual
exploration of the causal pathways for health and well-being, 2019) The intervention is
determined to be effective, that can facilitate men under meaningful activities. This essay
develop understanding of theory of Men's Sheds intervention which influenced health and well
being who take part in a group and the social determinants of the theory which influence success
of Men's Shed intervention.
MAIN BODY
Studies reviewed that men gender has been observed in many studies and been
recommended to lead healthy practices which can provide them ample of opportunities to
improve their overall health factor. The Men's Shed intervention provides safe and secure
prospects, that makes them to participate in purposeful physical activities that can be performed
an individuals or in a collaborative manner. It can help males to enhance their skills i.e. learning
and sharing skills and also it can ease their mental stress. These activities are considered by the
Shed's coordinators along with males in respect to the participant volunteers rather than asking
from intervention user. According to the report, health factors of males has been systematically
reviewed as public health issue which is under-represented in several theories and literature in
regards of their health improvement. (Men's Sheds: A conceptual exploration of the causal
pathways for health and well-being, 2019).