Mission Statement / MAN Model / MAN / CAMH / EVIDENCE

Mission Statement

The Centre for Advancement of Men's Health and the Centre for Rural & Regional Health Education is committed to a best practice model of health promotion in furthering opportunities for men, women and adolescents in their local environment to take responsibility for their own health, well-being and welfare.

The Centre for Advancement of Men's Health seeks to achieve its mission through three main strategies:

Initiating programs for men, women and adolescents that are implemented through local GP's, Community Health Practitioners and community organisations

Developing awareness, resources and professional development for GP's and Health Practitioners that deliver programs for men, women and their families
Providing a research and evaluation framework that identifies key health issues of concern in the community, evaluating the effectiveness of each program and developing direction for future initiatives.

Definition of Health Promotion using the MAN MODEL

The MAN model is a model of disease prevention and health promotion that seeks to improve and create pathways for men and adolescents to better access the Health Care System. It is based on an understanding of the factors that are important to men and adolescents, in the way they relate and make decisions, and has two main components that work together.
Firstly, it raises the awareness of men and adolescents about their health status, and designs programs that address the issues which they have identified as being most important.

Secondly, it equips health care providers, primarily GPs and CHNs to better respond to the needs of men and adolescents in their delivery of services.
It accomplishes this by:

• Identifying health issues important to men and raising awareness about the consequences of specific issues that have a high morbidity or result in high mortality (usually, but not exclusively in the context of Men's Health Nights).
• Developing health programs in partnership with local health providers to address identified issues.
• Equipping local health providers, especially GP's to:
  • Have a better understanding of men and adolescents and how to relate to them better.
  • Develop a physical environment in their Practice that is welcoming and provides opportunities in male environments that helps meet men's needs

• epidemiological data within local communities;
• client awareness of health issues and their own health status (pre-test questionnaire);
• areas where programs may be improved;
• where further programs may be developed;
• the success of each program in raising awareness and meeting consumer needs and its impact on the provision of health services in local communities over time (post-test questionnaire and health provider participation rates).

• Kidsafe on the Farm program in primary schools (school children and their parents)
• ASK - Lifeskills Program for Adolescents (targetting boys and girls)
• Workplace Health Program (both men and women)
• Parenting course for men – Man …. Being a Father
• Heart of the Grampians, Cardio Vascular Disease program (community, families, and workplaces)

The Centre for Rural & Regional Health Education and Centre for Promoting Healthier Workplaces are affiliates of CAMH, with the specific design to provide programs to wider sectors of the community Womens Health Workplace Health Programs Adolescent Health Lifeskills and a program specifically developed to create a greater personal awareness of Heart Desease. Good health and family structure is the cornerstone of our community Bernard Denner

What's CAMH?

Men are notoriously bad at attending to their own health. CAMH initiates and develops projects for rural and urban men in conjunction with other Health Practitioners in their local communities.

The partnership between the Mens Awareness Network and Hepburn Health Service formed the Centre for Advancement of Mens Health in 1996

Since 2001 a collaboration between Men's Awareness Network (MAN) & CAMH The Centre for Rural & Regional Health Education is an affiliate of CAMH and the website Mannet has devoted their energies to providing and developing Resources, Programs and Men's Health sessions engaging with males for better health and well-being outcomes

Centre for Rural & Regional Health Education (CRRHE) develops programs for males in the workplace and also includes developing programs for women and adolescents. Also a range of Health Education programs for GPs and Health Professionals based on the work of CAMH and MAN using the research and programs based around the respected MAN Model of Health Promotion

CAMH = The Center for Advancement of Men's Health
CRRHE = Centre for Rural & Regional Health Education
MAN = The Men's Awareness Network
MANNET = This web site, owned by MAN
MAN Model = The model that CAMH uses to deliver their programs and projects.

Resources are available for your organisation to use to conduct your own activities and training or alternatively to use in conjunction with our services.

Printed resources are available in hard copy and CD - ROM

Included are some of the following ......

• background briefings
• handouts
• draft letters,
• promotion and advertising ideas,
• cartoons and drawings (similiar to those on this site),
• quotes,
• research findings,
• draft questionnaire's to analyze needs,
• training and activity formats,
• suggested speakers (we have a number people available to assist)
• lists of organisational and personal contacts available to assist you
• testimonials from past courses
• draft course evaluation questionnaires
• facts and findings from previous activities