The Health Report Podcast
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The Health Report appeals to both specialist and mainstream audiences by applying a broad definition of health, and seeing health and medicine within social, scientific and political contexts.
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girijad83, February 17, 2006
Reviewer: girijad83
from India
The Health Report podcast by ABC Radio National (www.abc.net.au) is an interesting weekly podcast exploring new views of health related issues. It talks about issues like cancer screening, its benefit and harms, and stress and breast cancer, and gives a broad definition of these health topics, along with the social, scientific, and political context of these illnesses (i.e. the legal issues, the social implications, and the scientific viewpoints) related to each illness. This podcast is the first podcast of its kind that I've seen.
The audio can be improved by matching the volumes of the speakers in an interview. The narration is good, but you might miss out a few words if you are not an australian, due to a bit of a heavy australian accent in the pronunciation of some words. This is an important health show. Not to be missed!
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Health Report 2008-09-08
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Sep 08, 2008
Depression and heart attack
Depression and heart disease are two leading disorders which add to the global burden of disease. Several large-scale studies have investigated whether treatment of depression improves prognosis after heart attack.
Homicide by the mentally ill - a rare event
A study recently published in the British Journal of Psychiatry showed that the rate of homicide due to mentall illness has fallen steadily after the late 1970s. According to this study the risk of lethal violence by a person with schizophrenia who has received adequate treatment is not much higher than the community as a whole and the period of greatest risk is before initial treatment.
Getting psychiatrists to the people who need them
According to general practitioners and other health professionals, it is often difficult to get expert psychiatric help needed for a patient. In the Canadian province of Ontario they've developed a program to overcome this problem.
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Health Report 2008-09-01
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Sep 01, 2008
Drug dependence - part two
Drug addiction is a chronic relapsing condition and kicking the habit once and for all can be enormously challenging both physically and emotionally. According to research by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre in New South Wales the residential therapeutic community approach can be very effective, with around 80% of residents remaining drug free three years after treatment. This week Lynne Malcolm visits two drug rehabilitation centres to speak with staff and residents about how therapeutic communities work.
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Health Report 2008-08-25
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Aug 25, 2008
Drug dependence - part one
There's no doubt that dependence on any drug can devastate people's lives - and Australia has one of the highest rates of illicit drug use in the world, in fact we are leaders in both cannabis and amphetamine use. In part one of this feature Lynne Malcolm explores the effects and latest treatments of addiction to these drugs and some encouraging results from a study on the treatment of drug dependence and post traumatic stress disorder simultaneously.
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Health Report 2008-08-18
Author: ABC Radio National
Mon, Aug 18, 2008
Lung transplant
Australia has one of the highest success rates in organ and tissue transplantation, but it also has one of the world's lowest donation rates. About 3,000 Australians are on the official organ and tissue transplant waiting list and 20% of the people waiting for a heart, lung or liver transplant will die before they receive one. ABC journalist Phil Ashley Brown met a patient 20 minutes after she received the good news that she would get new lungs and he follows her progress through the transplant and recovery.
This programme is a repeat. It was first broadcast on 25th February, 2008.
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