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Wealth Equals Health
Wealth and health are tightly linked in the United States. As immigrants remain in the country, as they "become American," their socioeconomic status becomes increasingly relevant to their health status. For those who experience discrimination, low wages, unstable employment, and other stressors, this relationship may erode the health advantage they enjoyed upon arrival in the country.
This clip is excerpted from "Becoming American," Episode 3 of "UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" This ground-breaking documentary series looks at how the social, economic and physical environments in which we are born, live, and work profoundly affect our longevity and health. The series broadcast nationally on PBS in spring 2008, and can be bought on DVD from California Newsreel, www.newsreel.org
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Lation Paradox
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Two researchers present findings related to the "Latino paradox," the fact that new Latino immigrants, despite having on average lower incomes and highly stressful lives, suffer lower rates of chronic and mental illness than the average native-born American. This clip is excerpted from "Becoming American," Episode 3 of "UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" This ground-breaking docum...
Arriving Healthy
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New immigrants arriving in the United States tend to be healthier than the average American, but as they remain in the country, their health declines... This clip is excerpted from "Becoming American," Episode 3 of "UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" This ground-breaking documentary series looks at how the social, economic and physical environments in which we are born, live, and ...
There's No Such Thing as Small Stuff: Being Poor in Louisville
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Mary Turner lives in a poor neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. With three teenage children, a husband on disability, and health complications that prevent her from working, Mary must budget carefully to keep her family fed and housed. In this video, she discusses the choices she faces every day, quickly but eloquently presenting a glimpse of one woman's life at the lower end of the U.S. soci...
Tohono O'odham Community Action (TOCA) - Cultural Renewal to Improve Health
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Terrol Dew Johnson, featured in the "Bad Sugar" segment of UNNATURAL CAUSES, is co-founder of Tohono O'odham Community Action, a community-based organization focused on cultural renewal as key to empowerment and better health. TOCA has four primary program areas: basketweaving, traditional foods, youth/elder outreach and traditional arts and culture. www.tocaonline.org This video is a Web-exclu...
Youth Empowerment Strategies (YES!) Anti-Violence Program in Richmond, California
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Learn more about YES!, an after-school youth anti-violence program in Richmond, California. This video is a Web-exclusive supplement to "Place Matters," Episode 5 of "UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" This ground-breaking documentary series looks at how the social, economic and physical environments in which we are born, live, and work profoundly affect our longevity and health. ...
Unravelling the Mystery of Black-White Differences in Infant Mortality
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Neonatologists James Collins and Richard David specialize in the care of infants born too soon or too small. Their research on differences in birth outcomes between African American and white American women points to a provocative idea: the cumulative stress of racism is taking a toll on African American families even before they are born. This clip is excerpted from "When the Bough Breaks," Ep...
Richmond California Struggles for Clean Air
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Community activist Torm Nompraseurt leads a "toxic tour" of Richmond, California where high levels of industrial pollution are wreaking havoc on the health and wellbeing of residents. This video is a Web-exclusive supplement to "Place Matters," Episode 5 of "UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" This ground-breaking documentary series looks at how the social, economic and physical en...
Native American Treaties and Health Care
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Dr. Donald Warne explains that Native Americans are the only U.S. group born with a legal right to health care. Historically, however, American Indian health care programs have been inadequately funded, especially compared with other federally subsidized health care. This video is a Web-exclusive supplement to "Bad Sugar," Episode 4 of "UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" This grou...
Marshallese Displaced from Homes after U.S. Nuclear Testing
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Dise Langrus is one of many Marshallese who were relocated from their home islands 40 years ago after U.S. nuclear testing rendered it uninhabitable. Others were moved to make room for the construction of the U.S. military base on Kwajalein Island. Today, the Marshallese confront the worst of the "developing" and urbanized worlds: infectious disease running rampant because of poverty and squali...
Louisville's Rubbertown Neighborhood Fights against Toxic Emissions
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Eboni Cochran and her neighbors in Louisville have organized to demand that chemical companies in their area do a better job of monitoring and containing hazardous materials that seep into the soil and air. Across the country, polluting industries are concentrated in communities where the poor and people of color live. This video is a Web-exclusive supplement to "In Sickness and In Wealth," Epi...
Living in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods is Bad for Your Health
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Why is your street address such a good predictor of your health? Increasingly, Southeast Asian immigrants like Gwai Boonkeut are moving into neglected urban neighborhoods where African Americans have long suffered, and now their health is being eroded too. What can be done to create a neighborhood that promotes rather than destroys health? This clip is excerpted from "Place Matters," Episode 5 ...
Importance of Culturally Appropriate Care for Native Americans
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Modern medicine teaches a rigid, scientific approach to disease prevention. Yet practitioners like Dr. Donald Warne argue that to be effective, health care programs must be locally controlled and responsive to the needs and beliefs of diverse individuals and groups. For Native Americans in particular, role models and interventions must come from within the community. This video is a Web-exclusi...
Impact of Poverty and Stress on Diabetes among Native Americans
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As Dr. Donald Warne explains, there is a direct biochemical connection between living in poverty and blood sugar levels. The stress of being poor and of having family members die young creates a complicated web of cultural values and beliefs that make controlling diabetes more difficult. Add to that the lack of availability of healthy food and it's no wonder diabetes rates are high. This video ...
How Unemployment Affects Families
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Job loss doesn't just affect individuals. It impacts families and even whole communities. Stress, uncertainty, and lost income affect children in various ways. This video is a Web-exclusive supplement to "Not Just a Paycheck," Episode 7 of "UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" This ground-breaking documentary series looks at how the social, economic and physical environments in whic...
How Racism Impacts Pregnancy Outcomes
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How Racism Impacts Pregnancy Outcomes
Health in America
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Health in America
Growing Wealth Divide Is Bad for Health
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Growing Wealth Divide Is Bad for Health
Gardening as Cultural Renewal - the Gila Crossing School Program
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Gardening as Cultural Renewal - the Gila Crossing School Program
Federal Indian Policies and Health
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Federal Indian Policies and Health
Diabetes Industry and Native American Health
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Diabetes Industry and Native American Health
Diabetes among Native Americans - Genes or Environment?
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Diabetes among Native Americans - Genes or Environment?
Culture of Diabetes - Native Americans and Futurelessness
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Culture of Diabetes - Native Americans and Futurelessness
Diabetes in the Marshall Islands
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Diabetes in the Marshall Islands
Atomic Testing in the Marshall Islands
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Atomic Testing in the Marshall Islands
Cultural Loss - Native Americans adn Futurelessness
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Cultural Loss - Native Americans adn Futurelessness
Water Rights and Diabetes in Arizona
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Water Rights and Diabetes in Arizona
Kim Anderson's Story
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Kim Anderson's Story
UNNATURAL CAUSES - Trailer
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UNNATURAL CAUSES - Trailer

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  • @numol1
    @numol1 13 років тому

    Typical UA-cam racism in these comments -- bring up any sort of racial issue and the most annoying ignorant bigots will show up, screeching about "obvious genetic differences" and "it's all in their heads" or whatever conservative radio's been spoonfeeding them lately. It is simple logic that racism exists and does real harm.

  • @ojib62
    @ojib62 14 років тому

    Bad Sugar was Produced and Directed by Métis-Ojibway filmmaker James M. Fortier, originally from Ontario Canada, raised near Chicago, and based in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1983.

  • @Rubenleesims
    @Rubenleesims 14 років тому

    This video is typical of many Black neighborhoods in the south, including early housing developments and public housing projects. Many public housing projects are being demolished today because they were constructed on coal ash waste and incinerator ash waste landfills and fill dirt. Many redevelopment projects and so called enterprize zones are designed to clean up toxic waste in minority neighborhoods. The HUD HOPE VI program secretly cleans up toxic public housing. See my video.

  • @shadowhunter388
    @shadowhunter388 14 років тому

    @cubanboy740 Wrong. It was even shown the the CIA World Fact book. It even says they have missile testing sites,

  • @HaoSci
    @HaoSci 14 років тому

    Interesting finding.

  • @tippersmami
    @tippersmami 14 років тому

    my daughter was mixed and i am white. there may be stress also. lifestyle may be a big part. lack of good medical care. i drank lots of soda not knowing caffeine had a big part of early births as well. who knows why.

  • @anaam111
    @anaam111 14 років тому

    is there anywhere online where you can find the whole episode?!?!

  • @Nizz8daGrizz8
    @Nizz8daGrizz8 14 років тому

    when the nuclear fallout came from the vapourization of 2 islands, the fallout and ash fell like snow. the children were excited cuz they saw pix of snow before and began to play and make angels in the nuclear fallout. other big disasters were chyrnobyl in the ukraine when a nuclear power plant melted down. or union carbide in india which was a toxic gas leak, these disasters made alot of generations sick and killed many more all of which happened long ago and are still apparent problems today!

  • @KristinLemsMusic
    @KristinLemsMusic 14 років тому

    I believe the strong extended family structure and exuberant cultural life of Mexicans in particular is the main factor. Living among many immigrant groups in Chicago, I can plainly see this robustness in Mexican American families. How remarkable.

  • @freakingtv2343
    @freakingtv2343 14 років тому

    Ive been saying this and working on it for years. Im glad that its finally getting the attention it deserves.

  • @palchris2
    @palchris2 14 років тому

    This video is my class reading log.

  • @Lemonicedtea7Winger
    @Lemonicedtea7Winger 14 років тому

    It took me more than 2 hrs to finish the reflection paper.....

  • @lostangel912
    @lostangel912 15 років тому

    We are watching almost the entire series in my health psychology class at the University of Toronto. Very informative.

  • @Dealz1988
    @Dealz1988 15 років тому

    They deserve better. Born into Poverty i thought I was looking at a third world country when I saw this.

  • @Plexious
    @Plexious 15 років тому

    Hey, Am an Native American, Yet, am Rocky Cree, Living in Canada. I want to share something with you, in how it's affected us, the same similarities has also affected us not as individualsbut as a community. In the early stages, When a White man gave Alcohol to a native in return for Furs, ( Fur Trade ) it has destoryed are way of thinking. In whats important to us now. It's the greed, inside of us, but for an native itis what I get from it. Over what we really need!

  • @mr3nos
    @mr3nos 15 років тому

    SHEEEE He says the used to get commodities . . . I know many families who still live off them.

  • @LaddikInMajuro1
    @LaddikInMajuro1 15 років тому

    67 device That is so horrible . God Help people of the Marshall Islands from sickness that is gonna affect there hold life, " Is because of the Atomic Bomb they drop.

  • @WhiteStarWoman
    @WhiteStarWoman 15 років тому

    Kudos to the creator of this video! Well spoken, poignant, beatifully photographed and very educational. Maybe if enough people could see these things something could change like ... how about the government honoring just one of their treaties made with the native americans? Is that too much to ask?, that our government have just the smallest amount of honor?

  • @walkingbear56
    @walkingbear56 15 років тому

    There is always corruption where money is concerned, and the gifts of the government to set traditional against modernist indians has always been a sticking point. Assimilation or anihilation was the order of the day (and still is). Refined sugar is worse than cocaine in its addictive ness..and most things are now pumped so full of it.. take look at many american kids on the whole to see the results of a generation brought up on coke and McDonalds. "The Shit Generation"

  • @walkingbear56
    @walkingbear56 15 років тому

    Because war makes money... helping poverty doesn't help the rich.... Ethnic cleansing....the "white" authoritarian system that runs the show would rather see the red man just dissappear...its reminder of guilt for them. But they are still here.. strong peoples.... with values that we should all learn from. Thank you Don Warne for your truth, and for posting this video...I hope the 1029 people that have viewed it learn.

  • @walkingbear56
    @walkingbear56 15 років тому

    What you say has some truth, many problems are created from within the indian population. This is a result of a concerted genocide by the authorities that created the USA., who feared the Red people. What we have now is the result of 500 years of a slow torture of a peoples. Ethnic cleansing. It does nt have to be like that, but it will take much work and the end of what is known as assimilation trying to make red people white. "Crows do not need to be Eagles"

  • @islandboya
    @islandboya 15 років тому

    yes, i am from the marshall islands and this is a topic that does not go unheard.

  • @islandboya
    @islandboya 15 років тому

    In regards to jnnfrgbly's comment please understand that my people are speaking because this is a HUGE issue. Even today, in 2009, we still can't go back to live on bikini island because the water surrounding it is still contaminated and the food as well. It may be a small islands but it's still our home. Also the other reason why compensation is such a big deal is because we still have elders and young that have medical problems. Please look at this from our point of view before you judge.

  • @daecan
    @daecan 15 років тому

    Thank you for putting this video up. It does help people be aware of the situations that our and most reservations face.

  • @anthonyceleste
    @anthonyceleste 15 років тому

    This is a really good clip. Good Job Mr. Tim!

  • @costaricanmohican
    @costaricanmohican 15 років тому

    great video, way to bring attention to the subject

  • @jackbhd
    @jackbhd 16 років тому

    Not pseudoscience, serious researchers were involved in these studies, with peer-reviewed research results. The results are alarming. The question is, what can be done to improve the lot of all americans?

  • @Haitian1130
    @Haitian1130 16 років тому

    Wow..the fixing has to take place in the womb. The question is how, because I'm sure the stress of the mother affects the baby. Good video.

  • @makezmuzic
    @makezmuzic 16 років тому

    Thank you.

  • @NCAgentX
    @NCAgentX 16 років тому

    This is a must for anyone interested in epidemiology or improving the health of populations. Excelent cant wait for it to be on DVD

  • @NCAgentX
    @NCAgentX 16 років тому

    This is a must for anyone interested in epidemiology or improving the health of populations. Excelent cant wait for it to be on DVD