In the film “In Sickness and Wealth” from Unnatural Causes the determinants of health are demonstrated at first hand experience, and this really helped me see how the determinants directly affect a population of people from the same city, but affect each person differently. What I have gotten from the film is that income and social class are the most powerful determinants of health and this was profound for me because it is something that people have control over but very little control when it comes
Reaction Paper: Unnatural Causes Deepa Wagle Sharma Medgar Evers College The City University of New York Prof. Grant NUR 421 October 16, 2014 Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? is a series of documentary film produced and broadcasted by public broadcasting services (PBS). The documentary is about exploring the root cause of health disparities in terms of socioeconomic status, race, ethnic group, human genes and behavior. After watching video my perspective
Unnatural Causes…Is inequality making us sick?-Bad Sugar is about two groups of people in Arizona: the Pima and Tohono O’odham Indians that have the highest diabetes rates in the world. Half of the Tohono O’odham adults have Type 2 diabetes and the diabetes rate for children are increasing at an alarming rate. The film begins with a photographer/activist named Terrol D. Johnson taking pictures of his old neighborhood and interviewing people with diabetes. The filmmakers emphasize that the Tohono
The documentary “Unnatural Causes” explains the relationship between social class and health, which is, the higher an individual’s social class, the healthier that individual will be. Firstly, Sir Michael Marmot, epidemiologist in University College London has determined the hypothesis by looking at people’s grade in hierarchy, their employment grade. He found that the lower the grade of employment, the higher the risk of heart disease or just any other major cause of death. So, if you were second
investigates the causes of death. Also known as medical examiners, forensic pathologists work in the offices of coroners to determine how and when the deceased died. Consequently, forensic pathologists often collaborate with police officers to provide evidence in cases where the homicide or accident causes death. Function One of the primary responsibilities of forensic pathologists are conduct autopsies on the medical examiner's office. Closely examining