To mark International Men’s Day 2023, the Health Improvement Team within Belfast Health and Social Care Trust (BHSCT) and Belfast Men’s Health Group (BMHG) organised a webinar titled: ‘Living Your Best Life’. During this event, Paul O’Kane – BHSCT staff member and Chairperson of BMHG – hosted a conversation with two very special guest speakers …
Dr Alan Curley is the author of the book ‘Playing the Game of your Life’, and is the Programme Lead for, and a Lecturer in, Adult Health Studies at the University of West of Scotland. Dr Curley is highly regarded as an expert on Cognitive-Behaviour Change Techniques used within the addiction, mental fitness and sports performance fields. He is a guest speaker at international conferences, and delivers training courses on addiction, stress and motivation management, group work skills, and behaviour and mind-change programmes.
Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan is an Irish professional boxer. He has held multiple middleweight championships at regional level, including the Irish title, and has boxed all over the world. In 2017 in Quebec, Canada, he had one of his greatest ever successes when he defeated the favourite / World No 2, Antoine Douglas, in the seventh round – against all the odds. Spike has also won the acclaimed WBO Intercontinental Middleweight Title, and has acted and performed stunts in the 2007 film ‘Strength and Honour’.
A recording of this webinar can be viewed at: https://youtu.be/yiapeGPgAYU
To celebrate International Men’s Day, Belfast Men’s Health Group invites you to the Strand Cinema – on the Holywood Road, Belfast – to view ‘TOP GUN: MAVERICK’.
This will take place on Saturday 19th November 2022 at 5.30pm.
If you would like to attend this FREE event, please e-mail your details via the ‘Contact Us‘ page.
Men aged 55+ are invited to be part of a Men’s Health Day, on Tuesday 29th March 2022, from 10.30am – 1.30pm, in Crumlin Road Gaol, Belfast. This event will include health talks, exhibitors, therapies, a tour of the Gaol and a ‘Hair Bus’.
To register, contact Volunteer Now on Tel: 028 9023 2020 | Email: pamela.higgins@volunteernow.co.uk or see: Men2MenSpring2022
The Men’s Health Forum in Ireland (MHFI) was established in response to the growing recognition of the need to address the poor health status of males in Ireland. However, one of the first challenges facing it was to gain access to reliable data upon which to plan future interventions. This remains an ongoing concern – as the Forum seeks to work in an evidence informed way.
This barrier was, initially, overcome when MHFI launched its seminal ‘Men’s Health in Ireland’ report in January 2004 (www.mhfi.org/fullreport.pdf). This document provided the most comprehensive overview of key statistics on men’s health on the island of Ireland ever collated up to that time.
To mark its twenty-first birthday in 2020, the Forum undertook ‘Men’s Health in Numbers’. Funded by the Health Service Executive’s Health and Wellbeing Division, this sought to produce:
- A comprehensive Trends Report that describes, in detail, changes in significant markers of men’s health on the island of Ireland in the last twenty years.
- An infographically-driven Men’s Health Report Card that provides a lay person’s synopsis of contemporary key men’s health statistics in the Republic of Ireland.
These were officially launched at a webinar on Thursday 10th December 2020, and you are invited to download a free copy at:
- Men’s Health in Numbers: Trends Report – https://www.mhfi.org/MensHealthInNumbers1.pdf
- Men’s Health in Numbers: Report Card 2020 – https://www.mhfi.org/MensHealthInNumbers2.pdf
