Laura Gray
speaker
148 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2012
last heard Jul 2014
Laura Gray’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is actually much trickier to calculate than it sounds.
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Finding out mortality rate so soon after an event is difficult as they can sometimes take months to be finalised, checked and also published.
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But all the same, I put Andrew's question to Matthew Kahn, professor at the UCLA in the US, who's written about the effect natural disasters have on death tolls.
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Yes, and there's another change that's likely to have saved lives, and that's fewer hospital operations.
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Now, you might think that this would mean more deaths, but actually, in 2008, we did a piece about a doctor's strike in Israel, or more or less, which showed the opposite.
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That was Rabbi Julia Neuberger, former head of the UK health charity The King's Fund, speaking in 2008.
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The final word on this goes to Eric Neumeier, Professor of Environment and Development at the LSE.
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He says that while it is conceivable that there could be fewer unexpected deaths like car accidents and stabbings during a storm because people stay off the roads and in their homes, that's not the full story.
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