Health and politics

05/17/22 • 48 min

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How does health shape politics? How does politics shape health? Why do some diseases get international attention and funding when others don't? What role do institutions play? Richard Horton, Eduardo Gomez, and Jeremy Shiffman join Jessamy and Gavin to discuss the talking points from a new Lancet Series on Political Science and Health.
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Political Science and Health
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Jessamy: Hello and welcome to the Lancet Voice. I'm Jessamy Bagonal. It's May 2022 and I'm here with my co host Gavin Cleaver. Today we're talking to Richard Horton, our Editor in Chief, and we're joi