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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, (DVD)

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, (DVD)

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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 videodisc (236 min.)
  • 1 videodisc (236 min.)
Note
  • Documentary
  • Container insert includes summaries and complete contents of each episode
  • Program notes laid in container
Contents
  • Introduction (4:35) -- In sickness and in wealth (55:54) -- When the bough breaks (29:20) -- Becoming American (30:34) -- Bad sugar (29:54) -- Place matters (30:35) -- Collateral damage (28:32) -- Not just a paycheck (31:00)
  • 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
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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
Broadcaster
Composer
Cinematographer
Creator
Director
Film editor
Narrator
Presenter
Production company
Producer
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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Additional physical form
Also issued as streaming video via the World Wide Web.
Cataloging source
UCW
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Series executive producer, Larry Adelman
Date time place
Originally broadcast as a seven part documentary mini-series for PBS in 2008
Dewey number
613
Language note
Menus and audio in English or Spanish ; optional English or Spanish subtitles ; English closed-captions for the hearing impaired
LC call number
  • RA448.4
  • RA448.4
LC item number
  • .U53 2008
  • .U55 2008
NLM call number
  • W 84
  • WA 300 AA1
NLM item number
  • DVD1 2008
  • U5899 2008
PerformerNote
Narrator, Llewellyn M. Smith
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1953-
  • 1970-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Adelman, Larry
  • Smith, Llewellyn
  • Herbes-Sommers, Christine
  • Strain, Tracy Heather
  • MacLowry, Randall
  • Stange, Eric
  • Garcia Rios, Patricia
  • Rodriguez, Maria Teresa
  • Fortier, James M
  • Lee, Ellie
  • Rutenbeck, James
  • Scott, Chuck
  • Williams, Andrea
  • Ragazzi, Claudio
  • Phillips, Tom
  • McCarthy, Stephen
  • Chisolm, Richard
  • Weaver, Jonathan
  • Walker, Keith
  • Krause, Dan
  • Baynard, John
  • California Newsreel (Firm)
  • Vital Pictures (Firm)
  • Center for Asian American Media
  • Latino Public Broadcasting (Firm)
  • Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc
  • National Black Programming Consortium
  • Pacific Islanders in Communications
  • National Minority Consortia (U.S.)
  • Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Runtime
236
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  • Social status
  • Minorities
  • Immigrants
  • Health and race
  • Discrimination in medical care
  • African Americans
  • Mexicans
  • Tohono O'odham Indians
  • Southeast Asians
  • Hispanic Americans
  • Marshallese
  • Unemployed
  • African Americans
  • Discrimination in medical care
  • Health and race
  • Hispanic Americans
  • Immigrants
  • Mexicans
  • Minorities
  • Tohono O'odham Indians
  • Unemployed
  • Social status
  • Minorities
  • Immigrants
  • Health and race
  • Discrimination in medical care
  • Unemployed
  • United States
  • Healthcare Disparities
  • Health Status Disparities
  • Health Services Needs and Demand
  • Minority Health
  • Quality of Health Care
  • Social Environment
  • Socioeconomic Factors
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, (DVD)
Link
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Documentary
  • Container insert includes summaries and complete contents of each episode
  • Program notes laid in container
Accompanying material
1 fold-out guide
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Introduction (4:35) -- In sickness and in wealth (55:54) -- When the bough breaks (29:20) -- Becoming American (30:34) -- Bad sugar (29:54) -- Place matters (30:35) -- Collateral damage (28:32) -- Not just a paycheck (31:00)
  • 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
Dimensions
  • 4 3/4 in. +
  • 4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Dual-language ed.
Extent
  • 1 videodisc (236 min.)
  • 1 videodisc (236 min.)
Governing access note
DVD purchases include public performance rights and the series may be screened directly to any and all audiences. However, please note: DVD purchase does NOT include nor imply the right to duplicate, recast, edit, abridge, or transform the series in any manner nor by any means
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other physical details
  • sound, color
  • sound, color
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(OCoLC)216930144
System details
DVD ; NTSC format, all regions ; widescreen aspect ratio ; stereo
Video recording format
DVD
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, (DVD)
Link
Publication
Note
  • Documentary
  • Container insert includes summaries and complete contents of each episode
  • Program notes laid in container
Accompanying material
1 fold-out guide
Carrier category
videodisc
Carrier category code
  • vd
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
multicolored
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Content category
two-dimensional moving image
Content type code
  • tdi
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Introduction (4:35) -- In sickness and in wealth (55:54) -- When the bough breaks (29:20) -- Becoming American (30:34) -- Bad sugar (29:54) -- Place matters (30:35) -- Collateral damage (28:32) -- Not just a paycheck (31:00)
  • 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
Dimensions
  • 4 3/4 in. +
  • 4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
other
Edition
Dual-language ed.
Extent
  • 1 videodisc (236 min.)
  • 1 videodisc (236 min.)
Governing access note
DVD purchases include public performance rights and the series may be screened directly to any and all audiences. However, please note: DVD purchase does NOT include nor imply the right to duplicate, recast, edit, abridge, or transform the series in any manner nor by any means
Media category
video
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • v
Medium for sound
videodisc
Other physical details
  • sound, color
  • sound, color
Sound on medium or separate
sound on medium
Specific material designation
videodisc
System control number
(OCoLC)216930144
System details
DVD ; NTSC format, all regions ; widescreen aspect ratio ; stereo
Video recording format
DVD

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