NATIONAL MEN'S HEALTH WEEK 2008:

Resources: stress 

Stress accounts for an incredible one-third of all new cases of ill-health according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Some 13.8 million working days were lost to work-related stress, depression and anxiety in 2006/07.

MHF resources:

• Info from malehealth
• Everything you wanted to know about sex but were too busy to ask by Dr Ian Banks
• Relevant pages from the Brain Manual by Dr Ian Banks

HSE resources:

• Info from the HSE
• HSE's stress tools for assessing stress levels in a workplace
• Stress Management Guide for Employers

UK National Work-Stress Network:

Trade union-backed subsidiary campaigning group of the UK and European Hazards Campaigns

• Work-Stress Information Pack (45 page PDF)
• UK National Work-Stress Network website

Other useful resources:

• Making it happen: a guide to delivering mental health promotion - Department of Health guidance.
• Wind down - stress website
• How to relieve stress at work - simple article with practical things to do that could also add fun to an event
• Work organisation and stress - booklet from the Institute of Work, Health and Organisation (univeristy of Nottingham)
• Bupa factsheet
• Stress and mental health in the Workplace - MIND report from Mind Week 2005