Health and Politics
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. We're all hoping that you're having a great summer and staying cool. There's a lot of heat going on around the country. So we're hoping that everybody is staying safe. We've got a great show today, just with three of us from the Health Chatter team. And we're going to be talking about politics and its effects on health. And I assume that we probably could do more than one show on this. But anyway, we'll get to that in a sec. We have a great team. I like to recognize them. Maddie Levine-Wolf, Aaron Collins, Deandra Howard, Matthew Campbell, Sheridan Nygaard, Oh, wonderful, wonderful crew. They do our research, our marketing, and also our recording of our shows to get out to you, the listening audience.
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So today, Clarence, you and I are going to talk about the politics of health. around health. And, you know, I can, I can start this out. You know, I, I work for the state of Minnesota and, um, you know, there's things that happen at the state level. There's things that happen at the local county levels. There's obviously things that happen at the, um, at the federal level. And, um, as I think about it, um, I recognized, and as I reflect on it, I recognize that people in general, I don't think are really aware of what happens at each of those different levels of government. You know, the politics of it we'll get to in a second. But certainly, you know, all right, if you were going to just talk to somebody on the street and ask them, do you know what your state health department does? Or do you know what your local health department does? Do you know what your federal government does? I don't think people have a clue. What do you think about that?
You know, I would agree with that wholeheartedly. I think that when I... speak to people and i talk about some of these things there is not a connection made between politics and health it is it's just there uh i remember this is so funny i remember when i used to not like uh certain certain governmental bodies uh because you know something happened and i didn't really understand how politics worked in it and you have to realize that that in this particular arena there are a variety of other factors and so uh for me when i go out to the community i don't think a lot of people make the connection yeah between health politics you know what can you do how can you be involved all those kinds of things so i'm in total agreement with you there is a political
factor that we have to make people more aware of yeah yeah and you know i you know um aaron put together some background research i found this really kind of interesting research has suggested that politics we'll talk about politics now may be a significant contributor not only to individual stress but also the physical manifestations of poor mental health as well as the fracturing of critical social networks, which are at the heart of our mental well-being. And so it's like it says here, the results of the survey suggest that political stress may be more common than many of us expect. And, you know, I think in many ways, this came to the forefront during the COVID pandemic. pandemic, where maybe from a government perspective, political perspective, health is kind of invisible. Until all of a sudden something comes up. And then it's like, oh, my God.
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