'Fitspo' content and mental health
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What funding is being allocated to urgent care clinics in Australia?
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Priya, I know that you're an active person. Yes. Do you see active person content online?
Active? I actually don't. Can I tell you why? Because I've actually set my social media feed to remove such content. Oh, check you out. Yeah. Okay. So I don't have any of the Fitspiration, Fitspo, Day on a Plate, anything that could potentially throw me off.
Yeah, right. Nice one. I don't get so much of that either. But I've been getting a lot of old lady gains, which is the kind of fitspo I'm keen on. Can you explain that?
What are we talking about?
We're talking about women in their 70s, 80s, 90s who are doing deadlifts. They're doing, I don't know, bicep curls. They're building muscle. They're building and maintaining muscle. That's the fitspo that really inspires me.
And this is something we're talking about in the Health Report today, this kind of content, fitspiration, fitspo. Is it good? Is it bad? Is it somewhere in between? That's coming up on the Health Report. Coming to you from Wurundjeri land, I'm Priya Alexander.
And I'm Belinda Smith, filling in for Norman Swan, who's probably off on a beautiful holiday somewhere. He is. He's sending me pictures, eating delicious things, yeah.
Rude. Yeah. Also coming up on the show, urgent care clinics. The federal government has just announced a whole $1.8 billion is going to be invested, but is there evidence to actually show that they are effective?
And a group in Melbourne who are using viruses to try to treat antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. And this is actually a really old technology that's come around anew.
The first thing in the news is good news because Australia has become the 30th country in the world to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem. Oh, okay. And this is big because trachoma is the leading infectious cause of blindness. So if people aren't aware of this, this is when you get infection with chlamydia, the bacteria chlamydia. You can get recurrent infections that impact the eye. And over time, it can actually lead to scarring. It can lead to the eyelashes growing quite differently. They can actually grow inward and then scratch the eyeball and cause scarring. Wow. So this has been a significant problem in Australia and particularly impacted First Nations communities. But the World Health Organisation has just said that we have eliminated trachoma as a public health issue, which is really a success of an integrated public health response.
This has been led by First Nations communities, by Aboriginal controlled health services, federal and state governments. And this is really what public health success looks like if everybody works together.
So trachoma, is that treated, if you treat the chlamydia underlying the condition, will the trachoma resolve itself? Yes.
So it's about reducing the risk of infection. So this can be spread from close contact with individuals, but also fly's bell that can take discharge or liquid from the eye or nasal discharge, and then they can actually spread the infection as well.
Oh.
So part of this has been improving hygiene. housing, crowding, sanitation, but also identifying people who are at high risk of this infection, treating them early and eradicating the infection. So this has been a multi-system response which has been successful. Wow. Fascinating. It is, wow, and it's good news. It's a good news story. From one infectious disease to another, MPOCs.
Mm-hmm.
Rears its head again? It does. It does rear its head again. So people might remember there was a smaller outbreak in 2022 in Australia and a larger outbreak in 2024. But there's a study that's been published in eClinical Medicine, which has looked at, well, probably given us the first proper taste of how we're doing when it comes to vaccine coverage against MPOCs.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What funding is being allocated to urgent care clinics in Australia?
0:00–5:52
2
How does 'Fitspo' content affect mental health?
5:52–7:24
3
What is phage therapy and how does it work?
7:24–8:06
4
What is the significance of Australia's elimination of trachoma?
8:06–9:43
5
What are the challenges of antibiotic resistance in healthcare?
9:43–44:33
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