Music Being Used for Ebola Education in Sierra Leone

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In Sierra Leone, the fight against Ebola continues and one of the ways information about the disease has been disseminated to the public is through music. Musician and Deputy Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs, Mustapha Bai Attila has just released eight songs about Ebola, some of which have been translated into local dialects. He tells Health Check why he thinks music is an effective way of getting health messages across. Driving Change The health inequalities between Aboriginal people and other Australians is stark. The difference in life expectancy is seven to nine years. The reasons for this are complex, and many health initiatives are trying to tackle this. But could a project that helps people get their driving licence make a difference? Aboriginal people are less likely to have a licence and three times more likely to die on Australian roads. As well as improving safety, having a licence also brings other hidden benefits. For Health Check the BBC’s Phil Mercer has been to Dubbo in New South Wales to find out more. Airport Security After the attack on the World Trade Center in New York in 2001, airport security was tightened up and ever since new measures have been introduced to try to keep passengers safe. But despite the checks, other would-be bombers have managed to evade security. Traditionally a 'suspicious signs' approach has been used but it has not ever been tested systematically in the field. Surprised by this, two psychology professors, Coral Dando from Wolverhampton University and Tom Ormerod from Sussex University in the UK, set out to design a new psychological questioning method to detect deception amongst airline passengers. They tried it in several major airports around the world and compared it to the 'suspicious signs' method.