The Skeptic’s Guide to Health, Medicine, and the Media. Episode 11, Life Expectancy and Infant Mortality.
The Skeptic’s Guide to Health, Medicine, and the Media. Episode 11, Life Expectancy and Infant Mortality.
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Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2019.
Why is life expectancy in the United States decreasing and infant mortality so high compared to other industrialized nations? Take a captivating look behind the scenes at the debate between scientists fighting for their individual points of view. Does the media explain the statistics behind their competing theories? If not, who suffers from the oversimplification of a “clickbait” headline?
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English
7119972 Kanopy
Medicine.
Health.
Education films.
Title from title frames. Film In Process Record.
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2019.
Why is life expectancy in the United States decreasing and infant mortality so high compared to other industrialized nations? Take a captivating look behind the scenes at the debate between scientists fighting for their individual points of view. Does the media explain the statistics behind their competing theories? If not, who suffers from the oversimplification of a “clickbait” headline?
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English
7119972 Kanopy
Medicine.
Health.
Education films.