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Weekly News Roundup
July 5, 2016
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Dennis J. Barbour, JD, Editor
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| Michigan Cancer Consortium releases 2015 annual report with HPV facts, findings
"Cancer remains the second leading cause of death in Michigan, although it's a disease that in many cases can be prevented through the use of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination or detected early by having recommended cancer screening tests," said MCC co-chair Dr. Ernesto Drelichman, a colorectal surgeon with St. John Providence Health System. "Be sure to talk with your doctor because breast, cervical, colorectal and lung cancer can be detected early through screening tests. And HPV vaccination may prove to be a lifesaver for your kids." "Our call-to-action is for children to be vaccinated with the HPV anti-cancer vaccination and for adults to receive the colorectal cancer screening test they're eligible for," said MCC co-chair Joan Westendorp, chief nursing officer of the West Michigan Cancer Center.
Midland Daily News, July 1, 2016
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| HPV vaccination may lead to perceived need for safer sexual behaviors
After receiving HPV vaccine, adolescent girls demonstrated a greater perceived need for safer sexual behaviors and an increased perception of the risk for sexually transmitted infections excluding HPV, according to recent research inVaccine. "Concerns have been raised by parents and clinicians that some girls who received the HPV vaccine may incorrectly perceive themselves to be at less risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) other than HPV and thus may engage in riskier sexual behaviors,"
Tanya L. Kowalczyk Mullins, MD, MS,of the division of adolescent and transition medicine at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, and colleagues wrote. "Therefore, the aim of the current study was to examine the associations between
HPV vaccine-related risk perceptions
and subsequent sexual behaviors and STI diagnosis ... following the first HPV vaccine dose."
Helio, June 30, 2016
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| Ontario to allow gay men to receive free HPV vaccination
The shot, that normally costs $450 without insurance, will be made available to LGBT men 26 years old and younger. Justeen Mansourian-Christakos, a communicable diseases nurse at the Sudbury and District Health Unit, said until recently, only teen girls could receive the vaccine for free through the province's immunization program. But that meant the onus was on women to be protected against the sexually transmitted infection. It also meant that men were not protected at all.
CBC News, June 30, 2016
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| AAP updates recommendations for management of adolescent suicide
"From 1950 to 1990, the suicide rate for adolescents 15 to 19 years old increased by 300%, but from 1990 to 2013, the rate in this age group decreased by 28%," Benjamin Shain, MD, PhD, of North Shore University Health System, and the AAP's Committee on Adolescence, wrote. "Adolescent boys 15 to 19 years old had a completed suicide rate that was three times greater than that of their female counterparts, whereas the rate of suicide attempts was twice as high among girls than among boys, correlating to girls tending to choose less lethal methods." To aid pediatricians and other child and adolescent health care professionals in identifying and managing adolescent suicide risk, researchers published a report to update the previous statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
Helio, June 29, 2016
NOTE: For more information about suicide and other mental health disorders among adolescent and young adult (AYA) males, visit the mental health section of the Partnership's
Health Provider Toolkit for AYA Males
here
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With one person dead and 8 infected, ranging in ages from 24 to 43 years old, it's looking like deadly "de ja vu" all over again, as Infectious Meningococcal Disease (IMD) breaks out in Los Angeles County and Orange County. At least 4 of the 9 cases are among men who have sex with men. On June 24, a Health Alert was issued by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH), targeted to the "provider community," and entitled "Outbreak of Meningococcal Disease among adult Males in Southern California." With one person dead and 8 infected, ranging in ages from 24 to 43 years old, it's looking like deadly "de ja vu" all over again, as Infectious Meningococcal Disease (IMD) breaks out in Los Angeles County and Orange County. At least 4 of the 9 cases are among men who have sex with men. On June 24, a Health Alert was issued by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH), targeted to the "provider community," and entitled "Outbreak of Meningococcal Disease among adult Males in Southern California." "Since May 2016, nine confirmed cases of meningococcal disease, including one death," the alert reads, "have been reported in men living in Southern California, most of whom were men who have sex with men (MSM)."
The Pride, June 29, 2016
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Ontario is expanding its free vaccine for the human papillomavirus or HPV to people aged 26 or younger who identify as gay, bisexual or men who have sex with men, including some transgender people. Health Minister Eric Hoskins says men who have sex with men are at increased risk of HPV infection, which can lead to penile and anal cancer. Ontario had already announced plans to offer the HPV vaccine to boys as well as girls in Grade 7 this fall as part of its routine school-based immunization program. Previously, it was offered only to girls in Grade 8. Experts estimate that without vaccination, 75 per cent of sexually active Canadians will get HPV in their lifetime.
Huffington Post, June 28, 2016
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The study goes on to say that around 40% of sudden deaths in males were due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, with over 50% of the condition occurring in minority males. Only 1% of the cases were found in minority females.
Immortal News, June 29, 2016
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The AAP has released an updated policy statement on adolescent substance use that recommends universal screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment become part of routine health care. "Substance use has an enormous direct and indirect public health impact on children and teenagers,"
Sharon J.L. Levy, MD, MPH, FAAP,
co-lead author of the AAP's Committee on Substance Use and Prevention and assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and colleagues wrote. "Pediatricians play a vital longitudinal role in the lives of adolescents and are uniquely positioned to effect change in adolescent patients' health knowledge, behaviors and well-being." Every year, 83% of adolescents come into contact with a physician, the researchers wrote. In addition, adolescents are the age group at greatest risk for substance use-related consequences.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, "
Men are more likely than women to use almost all types of illicit drugs, and illicit drug use is more likely to result in emergency department visits or overdose deaths for men than for women. "Illicit" refers to use of illegal drugs, including marijuana (according to federal law) and misuse of prescription drugs. For most age groups, men have higher rates of use or dependence on illicit drugs and alcohol than do women."
NOTE: For more information about substance use disorders among adolescent and young adult (AYA) males, visit the substance use disorder section of the Partnership's
Health Provider Toolkit for AYA Males
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From childhood on, Dr. Olds said, "men's friendships are more often based on mutual activities like sports and work rather than what's happening to them psychologically. Women are taught to draw one another out; men are not."
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"Men have a harder time reaching their emotions and are less likely than women to reveal their emotional side. But when you have a real friendship, it's because you've done just that. I have a number of men in my practice who feel bad about having lost touch with old friends. Yet it turns out men are delighted when an old friend reaches out to revive the relationship. Men might need a stronger signal than women do to reconnect. It may not be enough to send an email to an old friend. It may be better to invite him to visit."
New York Times, June 27, 2016
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More and more young people are opting to seek mental health support online rather than face to face or over the phone.
Over the first five years of operation in Ireland ReachOut.com, Ireland's online youth mental health service, found that 62% of young people would visit a website for support when going through a tough time. Young people are most likely to look for support online, and favour online support as highly as speaking to a friend, it is a first port of call over talking to a health professional (38%), calling a helpline (14%) or speaking to a parent or guardian (28%). These figures have been released as part of ReachOut's five year review.
Clare Herald, June 26, 2016
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| Male Attendance at Title X Family Planning Clinics - United States, 2003-2014
Although both men and women have reproductive health care needs, family planning providers traditionally focus services toward women (
1,2). Challenges in providing family planning services to men, including preconception health, infertility, contraceptive, and sexually transmitted disease (STD) care (3,4), include their infrequent use of preventive health services, a perceived lack of need for these services (1,5), and the lack of provider guidance regarding men's reproductive health care needs (4). Since 1970, the National Title X Family Planning Program has provided cost-effective and confidential family planning and related preventive health services with priority for services to low-income women and men. To examine men's use of services at Title X service sites, CDC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Population Affairs (OPA) analyzed data from the 2003-2014 Family Planning Annual Reports (FPAR), annual data that are required of all Title X-funded agencies. During 2003-2014, 3.8 million males visited Title X service sites in the United States and the percentage of family planning users who were male nearly doubled from 4.5% (221,425 males) in 2003 to 8.8% (362,531 males) in 2014. In 2014, the percentage of family planning users who were male varied widely by state, ranging from ≤1% in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Alabama to 27.2% in the District of Columbia (DC). Title X service sites are increasingly providing services for males. Health care settings might want to adopt the framework employed by Title X clinics to better provide family planning and related preventative services to men (3).
MMWR, June 17, 2016
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New Resources
Teens' Social Media Use: How They Connect & What It Means for Health
In this digital age, technology and the Internet are part of everyday life. Social media platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook are especially prominent in the lives of adolescents, and they're not just for talking with friends: adolescents use social media to express themselves and find information.
Teens' social media use differs by gender. Boys report going on Facebook
most often
; while girls are more likely than boys to use visually-oriented platforms such as Tumblr, Pinterest, and Instagram.
Below, we look at their habits, the risks and benefits of social media use, and resources to keep youth safe online.
Office of Adolescent Health, May 13, 2016
The 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's
2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book
finds today's youth -
Generation Z
- are healthier and completing high school on time despite mounting economic inequality and increasingly unaffordable college tuition. Aided by smart policies and investments in prevention, a record number of teens are making positive choices. This year, the annual report focuses on key trends in child well-being in the post-recession years and offers recommendations for how policymakers can ensure all children are prepared for the future, based on the country's shared values of opportunity, responsibility and security.
Annie E. Casey Foundation, June 21, 2016
Abstract
CONTEXT: The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is a safe, effective cancer prevention method that is underutilized in the United States. Despite increased understanding of barriers to vaccination, rates remain low. Globally, developed and developing nations have achieved high rates of vaccination.
OBJECTIVE: Identification of effective strategies is necessary to optimize uptake of the HPV vaccine. We systematically reviewed the literature for national and international interventions that have successfully increased HPV vaccine uptake.
CONCLUSIONS: Population-based vaccination strategies that increased vaccine availability reached the greatest number of adolescents and were most successful in achieving high rates of vaccination.
Pediatrics, July 2016
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The Weekly News Roundup is produced by The Partnership for Male Youth and is released every Monday.
For more information contact Dennis J. Barbour, JD. News Roundup editor and President/CEO of the Partnership, at [email protected].
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