What makes us healthy, and what keeps us well, and can societies can be made healthier?
In a recent broadcast, ABC Radio's The National Interest presented this panel discussion from the 2008 Fulbright Symposium in Adelaide. Five distinguished guests, including Sir Michael Marmot (Director, International Institute for Society and Health, University College, London), Dr David Satcher (former Surgeon General of the US) and our own Dr Carmen Lawrence and Pat Anderson, looked at how things like public transport or housing policy, the tax system or education spending, can improve our health. There is growing evidence to suggest the society in which we live can have a major impact on how well we are. Marmot uses the example of Costa Rica, which is a poor country with a high life expectancy for its citizens, and where there is no government spending on defence, but an emphasis on health and education.
You can download this program as a podcast or read the transcript here.
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