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The Resource Rx for survival : a global health challenge, a co-production of the WGBH/NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions, Inc, (videorecording)

Rx for survival : a global health challenge, a co-production of the WGBH/NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions, Inc, (videorecording)

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Summary
  • Examines the most critical health threats facing the world today by portraying conditions in over twenty countries, examining why diseases that are curable still persist, the efforts to treat them, and the dangers of new "superbugs."
  • Over the past 150 years, stunning breakthroughs in public health have enabled humans to live longer, healthier and more productive lives. But the benefits of public health have yet to be extended to many of the poorest nations in the developing world. Meanwhile, in the past two decades, infectious diseases that had nearly been conquered, such as tuberculosis, have come surging back, while devastating new diseases such as AIDS, SARS and West Nile Virus have emerged. Microbial resistance to many modern drugs is rising, threatening people everywhere. And in our world of globalized travel, the latest epidemic is only a plane ride away. The program examines the most critical health threats facing the world today by portraying conditions in over twenty countries, examining why diseases that are curable still persist, the efforts to treat them, and the dangers of new "superbugs." Employing both historical dramatic sequences and poignant current documentary stories, the series showcases key milestones in public health history, such as the eradication of smallpox, alongside modern and future challenges, including SARS, a potential global flu pandemic and recovery from the Asian tsunami catastrophe
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
Widescreen.
Extent
3 videodiscs (336 min.)
Note
  • DVD release of the six-hour PBS television series that premiered November 1-3, 2005 and a two-hour special presentation on April 12, 2006
  • Special features: NOW interview with former President Jimmy Carter ; dispatches from experts in the field ; materials for educators ; activities for exploring global health issues ; access to the Rx for Survival web site
Contents
  • disc 1. Disease warriors. Rise of the superbugs
  • disc. 2. Delivering the goods. Deadly messengers
  • disc 3. Back to the basics. How safe are we?
Isbn
9781593753276
Instance
Label
Rx for survival : a global health challenge
Title
Rx for survival
Title remainder
a global health challenge
Statement of responsibility
a co-production of the WGBH/NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions, Inc
Title variation
Prescription for survival
Contributor
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Expert
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Language
eng
Summary
  • Examines the most critical health threats facing the world today by portraying conditions in over twenty countries, examining why diseases that are curable still persist, the efforts to treat them, and the dangers of new "superbugs."
  • Over the past 150 years, stunning breakthroughs in public health have enabled humans to live longer, healthier and more productive lives. But the benefits of public health have yet to be extended to many of the poorest nations in the developing world. Meanwhile, in the past two decades, infectious diseases that had nearly been conquered, such as tuberculosis, have come surging back, while devastating new diseases such as AIDS, SARS and West Nile Virus have emerged. Microbial resistance to many modern drugs is rising, threatening people everywhere. And in our world of globalized travel, the latest epidemic is only a plane ride away. The program examines the most critical health threats facing the world today by portraying conditions in over twenty countries, examining why diseases that are curable still persist, the efforts to treat them, and the dangers of new "superbugs." Employing both historical dramatic sequences and poignant current documentary stories, the series showcases key milestones in public health history, such as the eradication of smallpox, alongside modern and future challenges, including SARS, a potential global flu pandemic and recovery from the Asian tsunami catastrophe
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videorecording
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Nova (Television program)
Credits note
Paula S. Apsell, Director of the WGBH Science Unit ; Larry Klein, WGBH/NOVA executive producer, writer, producer, director ; Paul G. Allen, Executive in Charge of Vulcan Productions ; Jody Patton, President and Executive in Charge of Vulcan Productions ; Richard E. Hutton, Vice President of Media Development and executive producer of Vulcan Productions
Language note
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired
PerformerNote
Narrator, Brad Pitt. Experts include Jeffrey Sachs, the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University; reporter Laurie Garrett; Harvey Fineberg, President of the National Academies of Sciences Institute of Medicine; Nils Daulaire, President of the Global Health Council; and Donald Hopkins, the Associate Executive Director of the Carter Center
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1953-2018
  • 1963-
  • 1924-
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  • Apsell, Paula S.
  • Klein, Larry
  • Allen, Paul
  • Allen, Jody
  • Sachs, Jeffrey
  • Hutton, Richard E.
  • Pitt, Brad
  • Garrett, Laurie
  • Fineberg, Harvey V.
  • Daulaire, Nils
  • Hopkins, Donald R.
  • Carter, Jimmy
  • WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)
  • Vulcan Productions
  • WGBH Video (Firm)
Runtime
336
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  • Communicable diseases
  • World health
  • Emerging infectious diseases
  • Documentary television programs
  • Public health
  • Films for the hearing impaired
  • Video recordings
  • DVD-Video discs
  • Communicable Disease Control
  • Global Health
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging
  • Communicable Diseases
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Health Education
Technique
live action
Label
Rx for survival : a global health challenge, a co-production of the WGBH/NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions, Inc, (videorecording)
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • DVD release of the six-hour PBS television series that premiered November 1-3, 2005 and a two-hour special presentation on April 12, 2006
  • Special features: NOW interview with former President Jimmy Carter ; dispatches from experts in the field ; materials for educators ; activities for exploring global health issues ; access to the Rx for Survival web site
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
disc 1. Disease warriors. Rise of the superbugs -- disc. 2. Delivering the goods. Deadly messengers -- disc 3. Back to the basics. How safe are we?
Control code
62628732
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Widescreen.
Extent
3 videodiscs (336 min.)
Isbn
9781593753276
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Note
UMKC: Inquire with copyright@umkc.edu about availability of public performance rights.
Other control number
783421389397
Other physical details
sound, color
Publisher number
WG38939
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(OCoLC)70863363
Video recording format
DVD
Label
Rx for survival : a global health challenge, a co-production of the WGBH/NOVA Science Unit and Vulcan Productions, Inc, (videorecording)
Publication
Note
  • DVD release of the six-hour PBS television series that premiered November 1-3, 2005 and a two-hour special presentation on April 12, 2006
  • Special features: NOW interview with former President Jimmy Carter ; dispatches from experts in the field ; materials for educators ; activities for exploring global health issues ; access to the Rx for Survival web site
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
disc 1. Disease warriors. Rise of the superbugs -- disc. 2. Delivering the goods. Deadly messengers -- disc 3. Back to the basics. How safe are we?
Control code
62628732
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Widescreen.
Extent
3 videodiscs (336 min.)
Isbn
9781593753276
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Note
UMKC: Inquire with copyright@umkc.edu about availability of public performance rights.
Other control number
783421389397
Other physical details
sound, color
Publisher number
WG38939
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(OCoLC)70863363
Video recording format
DVD

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