Tegan Taylor

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Health Report · Less sugar in soft drinks; prescribing sociality; cervical cancer screening and Indigenous women; pandemic pregnancy · 22 Mar 2021 podcast

unless it's done really well, it could put more pressure on GPs who are already very stretched. voice-verified

not just your GP giving you a script for an art class, but they're connecting you with basically a caseworker who then helps you access those services that already exist in the community. voice-verified

Similar to Canada, there are some social prescribing programs here and there in Australia, but they're not everywhere. voice-verified

What are some of the biggest barriers that you've seen to these programs being used more widely? voice-verified

Dr. Kate Mulligan is an assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. voice-verified

You're listening to The Health Report, and I'm Tegan Taylor. voice-verified

Australia is on track to being one of the first places in the world to eliminate cervical cancer, except for in one critical group, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. voice-verified

Despite having access to vaccination and screening programs, Indigenous women get cervical cancer at the same rate as developing regions of the world. voice-verified

So clearly there's a gap here. voice-verified

And my fellow health reporter in the ABC Science unit, Lauren Roberts, has been looking into this. voice-verified

Hello, Lauren. voice-verified

So that's Associate Professor Lisa Watt from the Australian National University. voice-verified

Lauren, can you just take us through some of the programs that Australia currently voice-verified

So why the gap? voice-verified

Do researchers have any idea of what is going to help improve voice-verified

So I mean, self-testing sounds like a really good solution, not just for Indigenous communities. voice-verified

Is it available widely at the moment? voice-verified

So you've spoken to, as well as speaking to the researcher who's looking into this, you've also spoken to a woman who's had cervical cancer. voice-verified

What did she have to say? voice-verified

That's Ashley Williams, a Wadi Wadi, Wandi Wandian and Dharawal woman who had cervical cancer and she's now an Aboriginal educator. voice-verified

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