The change-up, demystifying the menopause
Join hosts Doctor Xand van Tulleken and Dr Rochelle Burgess for Season 3, Episode 4 of Public Health Disrupted with Prof Joyce Harper and Rachel Lankester. “We’re more valuable to our communities post...
6 Jul 202340min
Sex by numbers
“A remarkable number of claims you see in newspapers and magazines about sex are essentially made up.”What does the average British person think about sex? For over 40 years the Natsal surveys have be...
20 Jun 202339min
Ultra-Processed People
“It’s really not our fault that we struggle with our health, we have to look to the system around us and hold them accountable.”In our fast-paced world, convenience is king where food is concerned and...
27 Apr 202337min
Living on the edge - health inequalities and rising costs
“The way to get economic growth in a sustainable way is to improve the income of the bottom 60% of the population.”How does the cost-of-living crisis affect the health of the public? What impact does ...
20 Mar 202340min
Fat Chance: how the body positivity movement can be used to influence societal change
“The ways in which we talk about our bodies, the metaphors we use to understand our bodies in the world around us radically shape our health and the way we approach health.” What is meant by the obesi...
23 Sep 202241min
The power of conversation: redefining the binary around social media and young people's mental health
“There’s much more room for nuance in the conversation than it feels like we have now.”Social media is a huge part of our lives, but growing fears are fuelling debate that it is bad for children and y...
18 Aug 202235min
Dignity, decency and dying
“Death is something that affects us all and by not talking about it we make it harder.” Death is not infinitely deferrable, yet the successes of traditional modern Western medicine in increasing life ...
20 Jul 202240min
The Elephant in the Planning Room
“It is imperative that we learn to create homes that truly support and sustain us.” Interior and external environments affect our health and wellbeing in ways that we are only now beginning to truly u...
7 Jun 202233min
