Host: Benjamin Thompson
Welcome back to the Nature Podcast. This week, we’ll be finding out how economic downturns affect public health.
Host: Shamini Bundell
And simulating supermassive black holes. I’m Shamini Bundell.
Host: Benjamin Thompson
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Interviewer: Benjamin Thompson
Over the past few weeks, there have been some rumblings in the press of an economic downturn, and potentially even another global recession in the not-too-distant future. This week, Nature has a feature article looking at the effects that times like these have on public health. In particular, the article looks at the effects of the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession which began in the late 2000s. It makes sense that these downturns would be pretty bad for a population’s health, but that may not be the whole story, as Lynne Peeples, the feature’s author, explains.
Interviewee: Lynne Peeples
It’s a mixed bag. So, obviously, intuitively you might guess…
