Healthcare and Cultural Inequalities & Health
Wednesday, February 18th
11:15 a.m. – “Sick Around the World” (Film, 60 min.)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/
Reform in U.S. Healthcare is an urgent economic and policy issue. Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run the health care system? Five capitalist systems and how they “do” it. How does the United States with over $1 trillion dollars spent on medical care each year compare with other industrialized countries? (United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, Switzerland).
12:45 p.m. – “Unnatural Causes” (Film, 55 min.)
http://www.unnaturalcauses.org/
Fascinating reports on Health of Americans across the social spectrum: “Chronic stress, like other conditions that threaten or promote health, is distributed unevenly through society along class and racial lines.” See why Health is more than health care, individual behaviors and “genes”. How does social inequality relate to health outcomes? Important research about “low birth weights” in African American women, declining health of new immigrants, diabetes and obesity in Indigenous populations, health risks in inner city neighborhoods, and more.