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245 00 Unnatural causes series.|h[Kanopy electronic resource]
246 3 Unnatural causes :|bwhen the bough breaks.
246 3 Unnatural causes :|bplace matters.
246 3 Unnatural causes :|bcollateral damage.
246 3 Unnatural causes :|bbecoming American.
246 3 Unnatural causes :|bbad sugar.
246 3 Unnatural causes :|bnot just a paycheck.
246 3 Unnatural causes :|bin sickness and in wealth.
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490 1 Unnatural causes
500 Videos in this series may be obtained separately.
500 Originally produced for American public television in
2008.
518 Originally produced by California Newsreel in 2008.
520 Unnatural causes sounds the alarm about the extent of our
glaring socio-economic and racial inequities in health and
searches for their root causes. But those causes are not
what we might expect. While we pour more and more money
into drugs, dietary supplements and new medical
technologies, Unnatural causes crisscrosses the country
investigating the findings that are shaking up
conventional understanding of what really makes us healthy
or sick. This is a story that implicates us all. We're
spending Two trillion dollars a year and rising on
healthcare, more than twice per person than the average
industrialized nation. Yet American life expectancy ranks
29th in the world, behind Costa Rica. Infant mortality?
Cypress, Slovenia and Malta do better. One third of
Americans are obese. Chronic illness now costs American
businesses more than One trillion dollars a year in lost
productivity. It turns out there's much more to our health
than bad habits, healthcare or unlucky genes. The social
conditions in which we are born, live and work profoundly
affect our well-being and longevity. Unnatural causes is
a medical detective story out to solve the mystery of
what's stalking and killing us before our time, especially
those of us who are less affluent and darker-skinned. But
its investigators keep peeling back the onion, broadening
their inquiry beyond the immediate, physical causes of
death to the deeper, underlying causes that lurk in our
neighborhoods, our jobs and even back in history. The
perpetrators, of course, aren't individuals but rather
societal and institutional forces. And theirs are not
impulsive crimes of passion. These are slow deaths the
result of a lifetime of grinding wear and tear, thwarted
ambition, segregation and neglect. But this is also a
story of hope and possibility, of communities organizing
to gain control over their destinies and their health.
The good news is that if bad health comes from policy
decisions that we as a society have made, then we can make
other decisions. Some countries already have, and they are
living longer, fuller lives as a result.
520 Video 1. When the bough breaks: The number of infants who
die before their first birthday is much higher in the U.S.
than in other countries. And for African Americans the
rate is nearly twice as high as for white Americans. Even
well-educated Black women have birth outcomes worse than
white women who haven't finished high school. Why?.
520 Video 2. Place matters: Why is your street address such a
good predictor of your health? Latino and Southeast Asian
immigrants like Gwai Boonkeut have been moving into long-
neglected urban neighborhoods such as those in Richmond,
California, a predominantly Black city in the San
Francisco Bay Area. Segregation and lack of access to jobs,
nutritious foods, and safe, affordable housing have been
harmful to the health of long-time African American
residents, and now the newcomers health is suffering too.
520 Video 3. Collateral damage: Two billion people worldwide
are infected with the TB bacillus, but only 9 million
people a year actually get the disease. The story of the
Marshall Islands can help us understand why.
520 Video 4. Becoming American: Recent Mexican immigrants,
although poorer, tend to be healthier than the average
American. They have lower rates of death, heart disease,
cancer, and other illnesses, despite being less educated,
earning less and having the stress of adapting to a new
country and a new language. In research circles, this is
the Latino paradox.
520 Video 5. Bad sugar: The Pima and Tohono Oodham Indians of
southern Arizona have arguably the highest diabetes rates
in the world half of all adults are afflicted. But a
century ago, diabetes was virtually unknown here.
Researchers have poked and prodded the Pima for decades in
search of a biological or more recently, genetic
explanation for their high rates of disease.
520 Video 6. Not just a paycheck: In the winter of 2006, the
Electrolux Corporation closed the largest refrigerator
factory in the U.S. and moved it to Juarez, Mexico, for
cheaper labor. The move turned the lives of nearly 3,000
workers in Greenville, Michigan, upside down.
520 Video 7. In sickness and in wealth: What are the
connections between healthy bodies, healthy bank accounts
and skin colour? Our opening episode travels to Louisville,
Kentucky, not to explore whether medical care cures us but
to see why we get sick in the first place, and why
patterns of health and illness reflect underlying patterns
of class and racial inequities.
534 |pOriginally produced|c[San Francisco, Calif.], California
Newsreel, c2008.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
650 0 Public health|xSocial aspects.
650 0 Public health|zUnited States.
650 0 Minorities|xHealth and hygiene|zUnited States.
650 0 Children of immigrants|xHealth and hygiene|zGreat Britain.
650 0 Health and race|zUnited States|xHistory.
650 0 Discrimination in medical care|zUnited States.
650 0 Psychophysiology.
650 0 Poor children|xHealth and hygiene|zUnited States.
650 0 Medical care|zUnited States|xEvaluation.
650 0 Health Services Needs and Demand|zUnited States.
650 0 Minority Health|zUnited States.
650 0 Quality of health care|zUnited States.
650 0 Social environment|zUnited States.
650 0 Socioeconomic factors|zUnited States|vStatistics.
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