Category: Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and In Wealth

The Unnatural Causes documentary did not shock me with new information but in some ways, but I was still in disbelief at the state of health across different communities in the United States. The opening line was that American spends trillions on healthcare but we still have lower life expectancy and poorer health than otherContinue reading Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and In Wealth →

This segment of Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and In Wealth, explores privilege and the concept of inequality by focusing on social determinants in our society. The video goes through the lives of residents in Louisville, Kentucky, who are from different socioeconomic backgrounds and residential areas. There are 26 neighborhoods in Louisville and the farther East oneContinue reading Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and In Wealth →

Why are we as a society allowing something as important as someone’s life be determine by class? This documentary episode dives into multiple different storylines that show trends in poverty level and health. The main idea that I took away from the anecdotes told was that people’s health conditions are not coincidence, they are aContinue reading Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and in Wealth →

This documentary was helpful because it brought the foundational pieces that we’ve learned about health and social determinants of health together.  It talked about how despite America’s industrialized and wealthy status, we still have pretty poor health outcomes. For example, we have higher infant mortality rates than we should have, specifically for black women.  PartContinue reading In Sickness and In Wealth →

This documentary was really interesting. I think it did a great job emphasizing the importance of social and economic factors in determining health. The facts and figures they presented made it clear that “wealth is health”, that there are social gradients of health across SES, and that the way to fix the poor health inContinue reading Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and In Wealth →

I think my biggest take away from this episode was the effect that stress can have on the body. If the body is forced to be in “fight or flight” for too long and there is too much constant stress put on the body, there is an increased rate of diabetes and heart disease asContinue reading Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and In Wealth →

The video reflected on the daily lives of the people in Louisville, specifically the lives of individuals from different socioeconomic rungs. There is a drastic contrast between the CEO of the Hospital who belongs to the top 1% of the society and lives in the sophisticated suburban neighborhoods with the availability of fresh food andContinue reading Unnatural causes: In sickness and in wealth →

In the video Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and in Wealth there is a lot of information about the effects long term stress has on the body, and the demographic of the population that these high levels of stress tends to influence. I have always understood stress as something that is universal and effects all humansContinue reading Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and in Wealth →

Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and in Wealth entwines the narratives of several individuals who work in a hospital in the Louisville area. Each individual hails from a different district that is characterized by their unique socioeconomic status and consequently, though their lives do converge at a single facet in their life, each individual tells aContinue reading In Sickness and In Wealth →

We should have great health in America, we are the richest country in the world and we spend the largest percent of our GDP on healthcare. However, the amount of money we spend on healthcare does not equate to the best health outcomes. We rank 30thin life expectancy, fall behind many other countries in numberContinue reading Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and In Wealth →