Campaign aims to encourage more Cleveland area men to use health services

After noticing that more women than men were using its health services, officials with the Cleveland-based Center for Community Solutions have begun a campaign to encourage men to take advantage of its family planning and preventive health-care services (Source: “Agency urges men to use health services,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 1, 2008).

Part of the challenge, officials say, is changing the perception among many men that a family planning center only offers services for women. The center recently finished a two-year “community dialogue” project that it hopes will result in more men accessing local health services. It also plans to conduct a survey and compile a directory of men's health services by the end of the year.