Episode 5 I Lár an Aonaigh

FUNK MUSIC PLAYS

Mm!

Mm-hm.

HE CHUCKLES

MUSIC: If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next by Manic Street Preachers

# So, if I can shoot rabbits

# Then, I can shoot fascists... #

# ..nivel del mar

# Y nombradla capitana

# De un blanco bajel... #

# Viva la Quinta Brigada

# "No Pasaran", the pledge that made them fight

# "Adelante" is the cry around the hillside

# Let us all remember them tonight. #

We decided that we would go to them,

rather than wait for them to come to us.

So, we take the van to community centres, to sports clubs,

to workplaces, to restaurants, to bars,

to bookies - wherever we can find men, we took the service to them.

And why do you think men are more likely to access the service

here at the Man Van, rather than a traditional doctor?

Again, there's research that shows

that men feel that traditional health services

are more designed for women

and women have more experience of how to navigate the health system.

-Are you generally fit and well?

-Yeah.

-Are you fairly healthy?

-Yeah.

-Right, OK.

It does vary, depending on...

We have research from the University of Ulster

that show that men living in areas of deprivation,

who have perhaps a little bit less education,

a little less money to spend, know less about cancer -

about what causes it, and about what the symptoms are.

Now, we're delighted to say that an independent evaluation

of this service has shown that we're getting large numbers

of men in rural areas, men living in deprivation, single men, older men,

so, we're getting the people who are often described

as hardest to reach - but they're not hard to reach,

it's a matter of bringing the service to them,

and they are delighted to use it and to come on board.

-So, it is healthy.

-OK.

-It's at the top end of the healthy range.

Good job I cleaned my feet this morning.

Oh. Bit heavier than I thought.

-Are you?

-Yeah.

So, I'm just typing in your age and your height, here

-and then it'll work everything out for me.

-OK.

-Hi, Sandra.

-Hello, Tomai, how are you?

Not too bad. Nice to meet you.

-So, are you generally well, Tomai?

-Yeah, I think - I thought so.

-Good.

-Before I came in here today!

-Yes! Uh-huh.

Your blood pressure's a wee bit on the high side today.

-Yeah, I thought that.

-And you were quite right,

-you thought that it would be.

-Yeah.

-Well, Sandra, thank you.

-OK, Tomai.

-See you again.

-All the best.

-OK.

-Thank you very much now.

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