AV# 68427
Unnatural Causes ... Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (CC)



Digital Video Disc - 3 hours, , 51 minutes - Color - 2008



Racial and social inequalities in the health of people in different ethnic groups across the United States are explored in the presentations on this DVD. 1. In Sickness and in Wealth (56 minutes) looks at health and health care in rich, middle class and low income neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky. 2. When the Bough Breaks (29 min.) focuses on African American infant mortality rates. 3. Becoming American (29 min.) shows how the health of many Mexicans declines when they immigrate to the United States. 4. Bad Sugar (29 min.) profiles diabetes problems among the O’odham and Pima peoples, Native Americans living in southern Arizona. 5. Place Matters (29 min.) examines increasing health problems faced by Southeast Asian and Latino immigrants when they move into long neglected African American urban neighborhoods. 6. Collateral Damage (29 min.) explains the health issues faced by the people of the Marshall Islands, both on the island of Ebeye and in Arkansas. 7. Not Just a Paycheck (30 min.) contrasts unemployment after a plant closing in Greenville, Michigan with the social - and health - benefits guaranteed to employees of the same company in Sweden. Letterboxed; DVD includes intro clip. Filmmakers Christin e Herbes-Sommers and Llewellyn M. Smith; narrator Llewellyn Smith. California Newsreel. Closed captioned.


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