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The Resource Unnatural causes : is inequality making us sick?, produced by California Newsreel ; in association with Vital Pictures ; Center for Asian American Media ; Latino Public Broadcasting ; Native American Public Telecommunications ; National Black Programming Consortium ; Pacific Islanders in Communications ; presented by National Minority Consortia ; series creator & executive producer, Larry Adelman

Unnatural causes : is inequality making us sick?, produced by California Newsreel ; in association with Vital Pictures ; Center for Asian American Media ; Latino Public Broadcasting ; Native American Public Telecommunications ; National Black Programming Consortium ; Pacific Islanders in Communications ; presented by National Minority Consortia ; series creator & executive producer, Larry Adelman

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Summary
  • A seven-part documentary series arguing that "health and longevity are correlated with socioeconomic status; people of color face an additional health burden, and our health and well-being are tied to policies that promote economic and social justice. Each of the half-hour program segments, set in different racial/ethnic communities, provides a deeper exploration of the ways in which social conditions affect population health and how some communities are extending their lives be improving them"--Container insert
  • Episode one: In sickness and in wealth: "What connections exist between healthy bodies, healthy bank accounts and skin color? Follow four individuals from different walks of life to see how their position in society, shaped by social policies and public priorities, affects their health"--Container insert
  • Episode two: When the bough breaks: "African American infant mortality rates remain twice as high as for white Americans. African American mothers with college degrees or higher face the same risk of having low birth-weight babies as white women who haven't finished high school. How might the chronic stress of racism over the life course become embedded in our bodies and increase risks?"--Container insert
  • Episode three: Becoming American: "Recent Mexican immigrants tend to be healthier than the average American. But those health advantages erode the longer they've been here. What causes health to worsen as immigrants become American? What can we all learn about improved well-being from new immigrant communities?"--Container insert
  • Episode four: Bad sugar: "O'odham Indians, living on reservations in southern Arizona, have perhaps the highest rate of Type 2 diabetes in the world. Some researchers see this as the literal 'embodiment' of decades of poverty, oppression, and loss. A new approach suggests that communities may regain control over their health if they can regain control over their futures"--Container insert
  • Episode five: Place matters: "Increasingly, recent Southeast Asian immigrants, along with Latinos, are moving into long-neglected African American urban neighborhoods, and now their health is being eroded as a result. What policies and investment decisions create living environments that harm, or enhance, the health of residents? What actions can make a difference?"--Container insert
  • Episode six: Collateral damage: "In the Marshall Islands, local populations have been displaced from their traditional way of life by the American military presence and globalization. Now they must contend with the worst of the 'developing' and industrialized worlds: infectious diseases such as tuberculosis due to crowded living conditions, and extreme poverty and chronic disease, stemming in part from the stress of dislocation and loss"--Container insert
  • Episode seven: Not just a paycheck: "Residents of Western Michigan struggle against depression, domestic violence and higher rates of heart disease and diabetes after the largest refrigerator factory in the country shuts down. Ironically, the plant is owned by a company in Sweden, where mass layoffs, far from devastating lives, are relatively benign because of government policies that protect and retrain workers"--Container insert
Language
  • eng
  • spa
  • eng
  • spa
  • eng
Work
Publication
Edition
Dual-language ed.
Extent
1 streaming video (236 min.)
Note
  • Originally produced for American public television in 2008
  • Container insert includes summaries and complete contents of each episode
Contents
  • Introduction (5 min.)
  • In sickness and in wealth (56 min.) / produced by Christine Herbes-Sommers, Llewellyn M. Smith ; directed by Llewellyn M. Smith ; editors, Chuck Scott, Andrea Williams, William A. Anderson ; composer, Claudio Ragazzi ; directors of photography, Stephen McCarthy, Richard Chisolm
  • When the bough breaks (29 min.) / produced by Tracy Heather Strain, Randall MacLowry, Eric Stange ; directed by Tracy Heather Strain; editors, Randall MacLowry, Chuck Scott, James Rutenbeck ; composer, Tom Phillips ; directors of photography, Jonathan Weaver, Keith Walker
  • Becoming American (29 min.) / produced and directed by Patricia Garcia Rios, Maria Teresa Rodriguez ; editor, Andrea Williams ; composer, Claudio Ragazzi ; director of photography, Richard Chisolm
  • Bad sugar (29 min.) / produced and directed by James M. Fortier ; editor, Chuck Scott ; composer, Claudio Ragazzi ; directors of photography, Dan Krause, James M. Fortier
  • Place matters (29 min.) / produced and directed by Ellie Lee ; editor, Andrea Williams ; composer, Tom Phillips ; directors of photography, John Baynard [and others]
  • Collateral damage (29 min.) / directed and produced by Eric Stange ; editors, Chuck Scott, James Rutenbeck ; composer, Claudio Ragazzi ; director of photography, Stephen McCarthy
  • Not just a paycheck (30 min.) / directed and produced by James Rutenbeck ; editors, Andrea Williams, James Rutenbeck, Chuck Scott ; composer, Claudio Ragazzi ; director of photography, Richard Chisolm
Instance
Label
Unnatural causes : is inequality making us sick?
Title
Unnatural causes
Title remainder
is inequality making us sick?
Statement of responsibility
produced by California Newsreel ; in association with Vital Pictures ; Center for Asian American Media ; Latino Public Broadcasting ; Native American Public Telecommunications ; National Black Programming Consortium ; Pacific Islanders in Communications ; presented by National Minority Consortia ; series creator & executive producer, Larry Adelman
Title variation
Is inequality making us sick?
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
  • eng
  • spa
  • eng
  • spa
  • eng
Summary
  • A seven-part documentary series arguing that "health and longevity are correlated with socioeconomic status; people of color face an additional health burden, and our health and well-being are tied to policies that promote economic and social justice. Each of the half-hour program segments, set in different racial/ethnic communities, provides a deeper exploration of the ways in which social conditions affect population health and how some communities are extending their lives be improving them"--Container insert
  • Episode one: In sickness and in wealth: "What connections exist between healthy bodies, healthy bank accounts and skin color? Follow four individuals from different walks of life to see how their position in society, shaped by social policies and public priorities, affects their health"--Container insert
  • Episode two: When the bough breaks: "African American infant mortality rates remain twice as high as for white Americans. African American mothers with college degrees or higher face the same risk of having low birth-weight babies as white women who haven't finished high school. How might the chronic stress of racism over the life course become embedded in our bodies and increase risks?"--Container insert
  • Episode three: Becoming American: "Recent Mexican immigrants tend to be healthier than the average American. But those health advantages erode the longer they've been here. What causes health to worsen as immigrants become American? What can we all learn about improved well-being from new immigrant communities?"--Container insert
  • Episode four: Bad sugar: "O'odham Indians, living on reservations in southern Arizona, have perhaps the highest rate of Type 2 diabetes in the world. Some researchers see this as the literal 'embodiment' of decades of poverty, oppression, and loss. A new approach suggests that communities may regain control over their health if they can regain control over their futures"--Container insert
  • Episode five: Place matters: "Increasingly, recent Southeast Asian immigrants, along with Latinos, are moving into long-neglected African American urban neighborhoods, and now their health is being eroded as a result. What policies and investment decisions create living environments that harm, or enhance, the health of residents? What actions can make a difference?"--Container insert
  • Episode six: Collateral damage: "In the Marshall Islands, local populations have been displaced from their traditional way of life by the American military presence and globalization. Now they must contend with the worst of the 'developing' and industrialized worlds: infectious diseases such as tuberculosis due to crowded living conditions, and extreme poverty and chronic disease, stemming in part from the stress of dislocation and loss"--Container insert
  • Episode seven: Not just a paycheck: "Residents of Western Michigan struggle against depression, domestic violence and higher rates of heart disease and diabetes after the largest refrigerator factory in the country shuts down. Ironically, the plant is owned by a company in Sweden, where mass layoffs, far from devastating lives, are relatively benign because of government policies that protect and retrain workers"--Container insert
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Cataloging source
NRC
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Series executive producer, Larry Adelman
LC call number
RA448.4
LC item number
.U53 2008 streaming media
PerformerNote
Narrator, Llewellyn M. Smith
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1970-
  • 1953-
  • active 1985
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Adelman, Larry
  • Baynard, John
  • Chisolm, Richard
  • Fortier, James M
  • Garcia Rios, Patricia
  • Herbes-Sommers, Christine
  • Krause, Dan
  • Lee, Ellie
  • MacLowry, Randall
  • McCarthy, Stephen
  • Phillips, Tom
  • Ragazzi, Claudio
  • Rodríguez, María Teresa
  • Rutenbeck, James
  • Scott, Chuck
  • Smith, Llewellyn
  • Stange, Eric
  • Strain, Tracy Heather
  • Walker, Keith
  • Weaver, Jonathan
  • Williams, Andrea
  • Vital Pictures (Firm)
  • National Minority Consortia (U.S.)
  • California Newsreel (Firm)
  • Center for Asian American Media
  • Latino Public Broadcasting (Firm)
  • Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc
  • National Black Programming Consortium
  • Pacific Islanders in Communications
Runtime
236
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Social status
  • Minorities
  • Immigrants
  • Health and race
  • Discrimination in medical care
  • African Americans
  • Mexicans
  • Tohono O'odham Indians
  • Southeast Asians
  • Hispanic Americans
  • Marshallese
  • Unemployed
  • Video recordings
  • Streaming video
  • United States
  • Health Services Needs and Demand
  • Health Status Disparities
  • Healthcare Disparities
  • Minority Health
  • Quality of Health Care
  • Social Environment
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • United States
Technique
live action
Label
Unnatural causes : is inequality making us sick?, produced by California Newsreel ; in association with Vital Pictures ; Center for Asian American Media ; Latino Public Broadcasting ; Native American Public Telecommunications ; National Black Programming Consortium ; Pacific Islanders in Communications ; presented by National Minority Consortia ; series creator & executive producer, Larry Adelman
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Originally produced for American public television in 2008
  • Container insert includes summaries and complete contents of each episode
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Color
multicolored
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
Introduction (5 min.) -- In sickness and in wealth (56 min.) / produced by Christine Herbes-Sommers, Llewellyn M. Smith ; directed by Llewellyn M. Smith ; editors, Chuck Scott, Andrea Williams, William A. Anderson ; composer, Claudio Ragazzi ; directors of photography, Stephen McCarthy, Richard Chisolm -- When the bough breaks (29 min.) / produced by Tracy Heather Strain, Randall MacLowry, Eric Stange ; directed by Tracy Heather Strain; editors, Randall MacLowry, Chuck Scott, James Rutenbeck ; composer, Tom Phillips ; directors of photography, Jonathan Weaver, Keith Walker -- Becoming American (29 min.) / produced and directed by Patricia Garcia Rios, Maria Teresa Rodriguez ; editor, Andrea Williams ; composer, Claudio Ragazzi ; director of photography, Richard Chisolm -- Bad sugar (29 min.) / produced and directed by James M. Fortier ; editor, Chuck Scott ; composer, Claudio Ragazzi ; directors of photography, Dan Krause, James M. Fortier -- Place matters (29 min.) / produced and directed by Ellie Lee ; editor, Andrea Williams ; composer, Tom Phillips ; directors of photography, John Baynard [and others] -- Collateral damage (29 min.) / directed and produced by Eric Stange ; editors, Chuck Scott, James Rutenbeck ; composer, Claudio Ragazzi ; director of photography, Stephen McCarthy -- Not just a paycheck (30 min.) / directed and produced by James Rutenbeck ; editors, Andrea Williams, James Rutenbeck, Chuck Scott ; composer, Claudio Ragazzi ; director of photography, Richard Chisolm
Control code
809044910
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
Dual-language ed.
Extent
1 streaming video (236 min.)
Form of item
online
Media category
  • computer
  • video
Media MARC source
  • rdamedia.
  • rdamedia.
Media type code
  • c
  • v
Medium for sound
other
Note
UMKC: Inquire with copyright@umkc.edu about availability of public performance rights.
Other physical details
digital, sound, color.
Sound
sound
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
  • other
  • remote
System control number
(OCoLC)809044910
Video recording format
other
Label
Unnatural causes : is inequality making us sick?, produced by California Newsreel ; in association with Vital Pictures ; Center for Asian American Media ; Latino Public Broadcasting ; Native American Public Telecommunications ; National Black Programming Consortium ; Pacific Islanders in Communications ; presented by National Minority Consortia ; series creator & executive producer, Larry Adelman
Publication
Note
  • Originally produced for American public television in 2008
  • Container insert includes summaries and complete contents of each episode
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Color
multicolored
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
Introduction (5 min.) -- In sickness and in wealth (56 min.) / produced by Christine Herbes-Sommers, Llewellyn M. Smith ; directed by Llewellyn M. Smith ; editors, Chuck Scott, Andrea Williams, William A. Anderson ; composer, Claudio Ragazzi ; directors of photography, Stephen McCarthy, Richard Chisolm -- When the bough breaks (29 min.) / produced by Tracy Heather Strain, Randall MacLowry, Eric Stange ; directed by Tracy Heather Strain; editors, Randall MacLowry, Chuck Scott, James Rutenbeck ; composer, Tom Phillips ; directors of photography, Jonathan Weaver, Keith Walker -- Becoming American (29 min.) / produced and directed by Patricia Garcia Rios, Maria Teresa Rodriguez ; editor, Andrea Williams ; composer, Claudio Ragazzi ; director of photography, Richard Chisolm -- Bad sugar (29 min.) / produced and directed by James M. Fortier ; editor, Chuck Scott ; composer, Claudio Ragazzi ; directors of photography, Dan Krause, James M. Fortier -- Place matters (29 min.) / produced and directed by Ellie Lee ; editor, Andrea Williams ; composer, Tom Phillips ; directors of photography, John Baynard [and others] -- Collateral damage (29 min.) / directed and produced by Eric Stange ; editors, Chuck Scott, James Rutenbeck ; composer, Claudio Ragazzi ; director of photography, Stephen McCarthy -- Not just a paycheck (30 min.) / directed and produced by James Rutenbeck ; editors, Andrea Williams, James Rutenbeck, Chuck Scott ; composer, Claudio Ragazzi ; director of photography, Richard Chisolm
Control code
809044910
Dimensions
unknown
Edition
Dual-language ed.
Extent
1 streaming video (236 min.)
Form of item
online
Media category
  • computer
  • video
Media MARC source
  • rdamedia.
  • rdamedia.
Media type code
  • c
  • v
Medium for sound
other
Note
UMKC: Inquire with copyright@umkc.edu about availability of public performance rights.
Other physical details
digital, sound, color.
Sound
sound
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
  • other
  • remote
System control number
(OCoLC)809044910
Video recording format
other

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