Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?: Season 1

Air Date

March 27, 2008

Episodes

7 episodes

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

Season 1

Episodes

1. In Sickness and in Wealth

March 27, 2008
56 min

How does the distribution of power, wealth and resources shape opportunities for health?

2. When the Bough Breaks

April 3, 2008
29 min

Can racism become embedded in the body and affect birth outcomes?

3. Becoming American

April 10, 2008
29 min

Latino immigrants arrive healthy, so why don’t they stay that way?

4. Bad Sugar

April 17, 2008
29 min

What are the connections between diabetes, oppression, and empowerment in two Native American communities?

5. Place Matters

April 24, 2008
29 min

Why is your street address such a strong predictor of your health?

6. Collateral Damage

May 1, 2008
29 min

How do Marshall Islanders pay for globalization and U.S. military policy with their health?

7. Not Just a Paycheck

May 8, 2008
30 min

Why do layoffs take such a huge toll in Michigan but cause hardly a ripple in Sweden?

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