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The Thought Show: Measuring World Health

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19/03/2015

Measuring World Health

BBC World Service - The Thought Show, Measuring World Health

More Or Less finds out how difficult it is to measure world health.

More Or Less finds out how difficult it is to measure world health, BBC 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 “good health” is measured across the world with Professor David Gordon from Bristol University’s International Poverty Research Centre.  
BBC 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’s news of the latest fashion for “musicless music videos” 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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