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Published · transcript-backedDavid Cutler: belief
8 Sept 2021 Conversations with Tyler David Cutler and Ed Glaeser on the Health and Wealth of Cities
“I think you hit on the big issue at the start, which is, how do you take people who have difficulty interacting with the medical system and for whom society has been somewhat unfair and at least try and improve some aspects — their health, their economic circumstances, but we’ll stick here with the health component.”
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- David Cutler
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- 8 Sept 2021
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…If you could have new data to study one question in healthcare that so far has been hard to study, what would that be? I think you hit on the big issue at the start, which is, how do you take people who have difficulty interacting with the medical system and for whom society has been somewhat unfair and at least try and improve some aspects — their health, their economic circumstances, but we’ll stick here with the health component. How do you reach people for whom society’s opportunities have not extended as much and do what you can to make their health be better? What do you make of the Latino life expectancy paradox? Latino immigrants come to the US, often not speaking English, not well connected at all. They often outlive people who are born here, but their descendants do less well. You’re presupposing that it’s about the people not being well equipped to handle ordinary America, but Latinos seem to show the opposite trend.…
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