Healthy Mepla

Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service (2019)
Healthy Mepla
Cairns: Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service

The Healthy Mepla 2:52 minute video was developed from a community-run research workshop that identified the need to raise awareness about the importance of good skin health hygiene and healthy living through music and hip hop.

Skin infections such as school sores and scabies are extremely prevalent among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, particularly in children. These infections can contribute to more severe diseases such as rheumatic heart disease and kidney disease with lifelong sequalae.

Over 60 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from Boigu, Saibai, Badu, Mabuiag, St Pauls, Warraber, Poruma, Masig, Mer, and Erub Islands in the Torres Strait Islands, Queensland (Qld) worked with Ryan Samuels, known as Trooth, to create Healthy Mepla.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

• View resource: Healthy Mepla
• View media release: Torres Strait kids raise awareness of healthy skin through hip hop
• View website: Torres and Cape Hospital and Health Service