Does Happiness Itself Directly Affect Mortality?

Does Happiness Itself Directly Affect Mortality?The Matt Townsend Show • Season 6, Episode 254, Segment 4

Oct 25, 2017 • 29m

Sir Richard Peto is a Professor of Medical Statistics & Epidemiology at the University of Oxford. Since 1985, he and Rory Collins have been co-directors of the CTSU. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (for the introduction of meta-analyses) in 1989, and was knighted (for services to epidemiology and to cancer prevention) in 1999. Sir Peto shares his findings into happiness and how it relates to mortality.

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