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Flu vaccines: would parents allow child flu jabs if it reduced deaths in others?
Flu vaccines: would parents allow child flu jabs if it reduced deaths in others?
| Series: | More or less |
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| Episode | 2 |
| First transmission date: | 2005-01-20 |
| Published: | 2005 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OU Digital Archive web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:24:23 |
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| Producer: | Michael Blastland |
| Contributors: | Luke Bona; Innes Bowen; Robert Boy; A. W Dilnot; Richard Millner; Andrew Rogerson; Tom Ryecart; Peter West |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Subject terms: | Mathematical statistics; Social sciences--Statistical methods |
| Footage description: | Medical researchers say they have evidence that we would save more elderly people from premature death because of flu, if we vaccinated children. By some estimates, 12,500 elderly people die from flu in the UK each year. But how can vaccinating children help protect the elderly? Debt: Following Gordon Brown's visit to Africa recently and the many calls for debt cancellation for countries affected by the East Asian tsunami, who would dare to claim to lending to developing nations is a good thing? We speak to someone who argues that lending, rather than giving, is still sometimes the best policy. Cost of dying: It is sometimes argued that unhealthy lifestyles cost the state more than those of us who live long and healthily. We take a look at the costs and benefits of different ways to go and, to take one example, examine recent work to identify the costs of smoking. Averages. A look at Stephen Jay Gould who was diagnosed with Mesothelioma. A disease with a median life expectancy of eight months. Did he despair at that average? |
| Production number: | AUDA604A |
| Available to public: | no |
