The habits that protect your mental health
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What updates are there on the diphtheria outbreak in Australia?
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Norman, I think when I am moving the body, when I'm eating really well, lots of fruit and veggies, and I'm kind of engaged socially with the people that matter to me, my mood is better.
Yeah, I think that's true of everybody. Sometimes it's just hard to maintain. Things get in the way, you drop it, and you wonder why you're feeling a bit crap. And it might just be because you've let some of that go. And that's one of the things we're going to be looking at on today's health report.
I'm Priya Alexander on Wurundjeri land.
And I'm Norman Swan on Kabi Kabi land.
Also coming up on the show, we're going to take a deep dive into diphtheria, Australia's current outbreak. Why is it happening? How do we get control of it? And we're going to explore the housing element, Norman.
Yes, because we had a spray about housing last week on the show, about how overcrowding is part of the cause here. And I got a bit of pushback there and saying, don't fully understand what's going on in housing in Australia. And we've got a really interesting architect who talks about health hardware in housing and how it's got to be maintained. New concepts, and we're going to be covering that.
In the news, we're going back to Ebola because it is a story that we covered last week and we did an in-depth separate episode on the topic, which you can listen to. We've linked it in the show notes or you can go to the ABC Listen app. But the situation has not improved, Norman.
No. And whilst the World Health Organization hasn't put out an official report since the 21st of May, at least at the time we are going to air, Tedros Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, has put out some information in the last few days, which has been reported by both the ABC and the BBC, which shows that the outbreak is escalating.
So at the time of recording, the statistics are, and this is coming from Congo, the health ministry there, that there's over 1,000 suspected cases of Ebola. 121 of those have been confirmed with lab testing. And remember that this is taking some time and that the samples need to actually travel to be analysed. And over 240 suspected deaths from Ebola.
Almost certainly an underestimate.
Yes, and that's the problem. And we did mention that it's very likely that this has been brewing for some time and that we don't have a true handle of the numbers. A doctor, Dr. Blaze, who was treating patients with Ebola, has also now died very tragically. And some countries like the US and Canada have started to place travel restrictions on people returning from areas impacted by Ebola. So initially, the US said they were just imposing the travel ban on non-citizens from affected regions, but they've now extended that to green card holders. And Canada has imposed a 21-day quarantine measure for anyone returning from these affected areas.
And it's leaked across into Uganda. And again, the reporting from there is rather patchy, but a small number of cases at the moment, but that could spread as well. And remember, this is an area under military control in the Congo where people don't trust the government and medical services find it hard to get in. And people don't want to admit that they've got Ebola in the family and that hides people who've died and that's spreading the spread from them. So this is a bad situation.
Very bad situation and there's actually, I didn't realise Norman, but in previous outbreaks there's actually been attacks on healthcare facilities because people in the community feel that either it's a hoax to try and control them or they really want access to their loved one to carry out the burial rituals and that is occurring currently in Congo which just makes things even more complex.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What updates are there on the diphtheria outbreak in Australia?
0:00–5:29
2
How is housing maintenance linked to public health?
5:29–9:19
3
What are the everyday steps to protect against depression?
9:19–14:44
4
What does recent research say about calcium and vitamin D supplementation?
14:44–26:09
5
How does the outbreak of diphtheria differ from previous cases?
26:09–32:30
6
What role does vaccination play in controlling diphtheria?
32:30–39:04
7
What are the implications of housing quality on health in remote communities?
39:04–40:55
8
What behavioral changes can improve mental health?
40:55–42:37
Speakers
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