Luck, Leadership and Liberty: health through cultural evolution

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What processes govern whether health in populations gets better or worse on a time scale of a few decades? Have healthy populations reached that state through luck, good leadership, or because people have the freedom to respond to incentives?

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This event was on Thu, 20 Nov 2008

Christopher Dye

Professor Christopher Dye

Professor of Physic

Professor Dye was the Gresham Professor of Physic between 2005 and 2009. He is based at the World Health Organization, where he evaluates epidemiological and...

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