Measuring World Health
More Or Less finds out how difficult it is to measure world health, 大象传媒 Trending discovers who has been leaking Saudi royal secrets and the Why Factor asks why we forget.
Babies born in Rwanda are likely to live healthier lives than those in the most deprived 10 % of England, according to recent reports. But how does the data back this up? In More or Less, Hannah Moore and Wesley Stephenson explore how 鈥済ood health鈥 is measured across the world with Professor David Gordon from Bristol University鈥檚 International Poverty Research Centre.
大象传媒 Trending, presented by Mukul Devichand, finds out who is behind a series of leaks of alleged secrets about the royal family in Saudi Arabia, it hears from an anthropologist in El Salvador about the alleged sexual abuse of schoolgirls by their Principal, and there鈥檚 news of the latest fashion for 鈥渕usicless music videos鈥 with Mario Wienerroither, an Austrian Sound Designer. And in the Why Factor, Jo Fidgen asks why we forget and why memory is so important to us. She talks to a neuroscientist seeking to unlock the reasons for why we remember things.
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