Men’s Health
Our goal is to inform and educate men in Montgomery County of the importance of their overall health by preventing illness and staying healthy and safe. Staying healthy expands on the many things you can do – including eating a nutritious diet and exercising regularly.
The Men’s Health program provides comprehensive health education and facilitates access to essential services for men who have historically faced disparities in healthcare. Through a collaborative and multifaceted approach, our program aims to make a significant and positive impact on the health and well-being of men within our community. In Dayton, men face several pressing health challenges, including these chronic diseases:
- Cardiovascular/Heart Disease: As the leading cause of death among men in Ohio and across the nation, heart disease poses a serious threat, often claiming lives during a man's prime years.
- Hypertension/High Blood Pressure: This silent condition can lead to severe health complications if left unchecked, making regular monitoring crucial.
- Diabetes: A growing epidemic, diabetes affects countless men and can lead to debilitating health issues if not managed properly.
- Prostate Cancer: This disease is a significant concern, emphasizing the need for awareness and regular screenings among men. - Unintentional Injuries (Accidents): These incidents can have life-altering consequences, underscoring the importance of safety and prevention strategies.
- Mental Health: An often-overlooked aspect of overall well-being, mental health challenges can deeply impact men, highlighting the need for supportive resources and open discussions.
Through targeted outreach and education, the Men’s Health program strives to address these critical health issues and empower men to take charge of their health.
Public Health offers a variety of parenting programs for fathers, including:
Monthly Fatherhood Club We are building a community of driven, loving and supportive fathers. We use this time as an open discussion, hitting on all of the big things we experience as DADs. We also discuss key fatherhood tips and tricks from our parenting trainings.
24:7 Dad Fathering was developed by the National Fatherhood Initiative and is the most widely used evidence-based fatherhood program in the U.S. It equips dads with the pro-fathering awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and skills to be the fathers their children need. The program is built on the basis that fathers can be nurturers, and nurturing is a learned skill for men. This program is held Tuesday, at 10:30 am at the Drew Health Center.
Nurturing Fathers – Tools for Being a Great Dad. The Nurturing Fathers Program is an evidence - based, 13-week training course designed to teach parenting and nurturing skills to men. Each class provides proven, effective skills for healthy family relationships and child development.
On My Shoulders (OMS) - is a strengths-based, experiential curriculum designed to give fathers from a variety of backgrounds effective tools for being strong, effective fathers. OMS is not a parenting class per se but is an experiential learning process that emphasizes relationship skills, builds self-awareness, addresses emotions, promotes mindful choices (Deciding, not Sliding), and encourages participants to value themselves as fathers and as men in the world. OMS focuses on core relationship values, such as commitment, respect, and healthy attachment. It also focuses on workable practical skills that make for effective parenting and effective relationships in general. Social science research lends strong support to the idea that improved functioning in one part of life spills over into other areas of life! As such, fathers who work through the On My Shoulders material in a fatherhood program should see real benefits in many areas of their lives.
Inside Out Dad - When incarcerated fathers are given the vision that they play a unique and irreplaceable role in their children's lives, hearts change, men change - families' and children's lives change. Inside Out Dad is an evidence-based program, proven to develop pro-fathering attitudes, knowledge, and skills, giving fathers the necessary strategies to prepare them for release.
Recomended Men’s Health Checkups & Screenings
- Medical Care Home: Everyone should be established with a doctor’s office for routine care, including wellness screenings, exams, and health counseling according to your age and risk factors, and for needed care for when you are sick, (Age 18+).
- Physical Exam: Review overall health status, perform physical exam, and discuss health-related topics. Includes blood pressure check, heart rate and breathing rates, weight/BMI, (Age 18+, Yearly).
- Hernia Exam: Your doctor will check for a bulge, swelling or pain in the groin or abdomen area to detect a possible hernia, (Age 18+, discuss with doctor).
- Prostate Exam: A prostate exam can help your doctor diagnose an enlarged or inflamed prostate. A PSA test is a blood test used primarily to screen for prostate cancer. The test measures the amount of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in your blood. General guidelines recommend starting at age 55, but you may need PSA screening between the ages of 40 and 54, (40+, every 2-3 years).
- Lipid Panel Screening: Also known as a cholesterol test, a lipid panel is a blood test that measures lipids—fats and fatty substances used as a source of energy by your body, (Age TBD, discuss with doctor).
- Blood Pressure Screening: High blood pressure (hypertension) has no symptoms but can cause permanent damage to body organs, (Age 18+, discuss with doctor).
- Tetanus Booster: The tetanus booster prevents bacterial infection known as lockjaw. Recommended every 10 years, or if you have experienced a puncture wound, regardless of when you had your last booster, (Age 18+, every 10 years).
- Colorectal Health: A flexible scope examines the rectum, sigmoid, and colon for cancer at its earliest and most treatable stages. Screenings can include colonoscopy or CT colonography, (Age 45+, every 5-10 years, discuss with doctor).
- Self-Exams: Testicles and Breasts - To find lumps in their earliest stages, Oral - to look for signs for cancerous lesions in the mouth, Skin - to look for signs of changing moles, freckles or early skin cancer, (Age 18+, monthly).
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases - STD: Adults who consider themselves at risk for sexually transmitted disease (STD) should be screened for syphilis, chlamydia, HIV and other STDs. If you are sexually active with multiple partners, or share needles, it is recommended to be tested every 3-6 months, (Age 18+, discuss with doctor).
- Blood Testing and Urinalysis: Screens for various illnesses and diseases (heart disease, stroke, high cholesterol, diabetes, kidney or thyroid dysfunction) before symptoms occur, (Age 18+, discuss with doctor).
- Testosterone Screening: Testosterone tests can help diagnose erectile dysfunction (ED). Low testosterone symptoms include low sex drive, ED, fatigue, and depression. Initial screening for symptoms with a questionnaire followed by a simple blood test, (Age 40+, discuss with doctor).
- Mental Health: Includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life. Screenings for conditions such as depression, anxiety and any disorder which impacts our ability to think, feel, and act should be discussed with your doctor, (Age 18+, at least yearly).
- Dental: Yearly/ bi-yearly dental visits are important to examine for mouth cancer. These preventative visits come with professional teeth cleanings, and provide care of your teeth and gums, (Age 18+, twice a year).
- Vision and Eye Exams: Most adults are encouraged to get eye exams from an eye care specialist on a regular basis. An eye exam is a more in-depth test than a vision screening. Discuss with your eye care specialist for more information, (Age 18+, yearly).
- Vaccinations:Talktoyour doctor about which vaccines you need depending on your age, job, travel, health conditions, lifestyle,and previous vaccines received. Some vaccines require a booster (such as Tdap), some are annual (such as flu), and some may be new to you (such as mpox), (All ages, discuss with doctor).
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