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Men's Health Network

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ6816001 ↗
Source-derived summary

Men's Health Network (MHN) is a non-profit international educational organization of health care professionals and interested individuals that focuses on improving male health and wellness. MHN has since been classified as a tax-exempt entity under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service code.

MHN is based in the United States and is incorporated in the District of Columbia.

Networks

In 1994, MHN provided the impetus for Men's Health Week in the week leading up to and including Father's Day and Men's Health Month (June), typical events include educational lectures by sports figures, free health screenings, and health fairs.

The organization also offers health information online through digital libraries, directories, free screening calendars, and websites such as www.checkmensfacts.com and as over the phone through Men’s Healthline.

Editorial summary

“Men's Health Network” enters the record as organization. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Men's, Health and Network can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Men's, Health and Network.
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Why this record matters

“Men's Health Network” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Men's, Health and Network provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6816001. VIAF identifies the subject as 137561079. The Library of Congress control number is no2004108831. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Men's Health Network”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Men's Health Network primary sources, Men's Health Network archive and Men's research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Men's Health Network”?
  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
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This entry incorporates text from “Men's Health Network” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.