Multimedia Collection
Unnatural Causes ... Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
DVD
240 min
2008
RA448.4 .U53 2008 DVD
This is a story about health, but it's not about doctors or drugs. It's about why some of us get sicker more often and die sooner in the first place.
Unnatural causes criss-crosses the country investigating findings that are shaking up our conventional understanding of health. There's much more to our wellbeing than genes, behaviors and medical care. The social, economic and physical environments in which we are born, live and work profoundly affect our longevity and health – as much as smoking, diet and exercise.
This ground-breaking documentary series sheds light on mounting evidence of how inequities in the rest of our lives – the jobs we do, the wealth we enjoy, the neighborhoods we live in – can get under the skin and disrupt our biology as surely as germs and viruses. Solutions lie not in more pills but in more equitable social policies.
Segments:
- In Sickness and In Wealth (56 mins): What connections exist between healthy bodies, healthy bank accounts and skin color?
- When the Bough Breaks (29 mins): How racism gets embedded in the body and affects birth outcomes
- Becoming American (29 mins): Latino immigrants arrive healthy but don's stay that way
- Bad Sugar (29 mins): Diabetes in two Native American communities
- Place Matters (29 mins): Where you live predicts your health
- Collateral Damage (29 mins): Marshall Islanders are caught between the developing and industrialized worlds
- Not Just a Paycheck (30 mins): Unemployment takes a toll in Michigan but not in Sweden
Distributed by California Newsreel (www.newsreel.org).
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