Dr Angela Egan - Health Inequities in Our Community

05/15/22 • 50 min

Dr Angela Egan is a trained GP, now working in a highly specialised team undertaking major heart and lung surgery in Townsville. Angela is a passionate advocate of lifestyle medicine, health equity and climate action in her community. In fact, her determination for stronger changes in these areas has motivated Dr Egan to run as an independent candidate in the upcoming Australian federal election.
Angela discusses the health and social issues facing regional, rural and remote areas and we learn more about Cardiovascular Disease and Rheumatic Heart Disease in Australia, noting the high Indigenous burden, which necessitates urgent and transformational change.
In this episode we discuss:
• Angela’s background; from a career in the army to medicine, and now running for politics!
• Her passion for preventative and lifestyle medicine principles and her work in the community encouraging this
• Multiple factors that contribute to the health disparities still seen between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities, and how we work towards closing that gap
• Heart health primer: An overview on the prevention, treatment and management of both Cardiovascular Disease and Rheumatic Heart Disease
• Food insecurity in rural and remote areas
• The impacts of climate change on the social and environmental determinants of health
• Angela’s motivations for standing for the federal election and her policy priorities
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