Summary Of Unnatural Causes

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making us Sick, clearly explored the relationship between socioeconomic status and health, it was said that college graduates live 2.5 years longer than high school graduates” (California Newsreel, 2008). This documentary illustrated how one’s level of education not only impacts their quality of life, but also impacts the duration of one’s life.

The video Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and in Health highlights the various disparities that impact population health outcomes among different groups. The frequency of violence and crime is one such feature that impacts health. Areas affected with an increased prevalence of violence and crime, will likely have residents that feel unsafe outside their homes. If patrons are not safe in their homes or neighborhoods, they are less likely to active within their community. This particularly affects children. If they are unable to play outside safely, there are more likely to live sedentary lives as they grow into adulthood. This impacts population health because a sedentary lifestyle increases the risk for developing certain cancers and other poor

The social problem shown in the video Separate and Unequal is poverty and racism. This video focuses specifically on Jackson, Mississippi. This video takes a look at Lanier High School and some of the student’s experiences and difficulties in this school due to poverty in this town. Jackson Mississippi is 70% black and Lanier High School is 100% black students. Everything started to go downhill for this community after integration occurred. Black students left their school and went to a more diverse school. But no one chose to come to Lanier High School or Jackson due to how run down the community and school was. Therefore the community only suffered. Manuel is a student at Lanier High School. He does not have a father figure and his mother is not in good condition due to her stroke, so he has to take care of her. He struggles in school with his grades and authority from the teachers. He plays on the basketball team but always fights with his coach because he is not used to male authority. He is kicked off of the team and ends up failing tenth grade. He then roams the streets with his buddies and his mom is very worried he’ll end up in jail or even worse, death. He is a prime example of how poverty in his family and community affect him directly. Alicia is a teen mom at Lanier High School. She is raising her baby with the help of her mother because the father is in jail. She struggles in school due to providing for her baby and ends up dropping out. She continues to try to

It shows that even while having the somewhat equal opportunity to each other, it is harder to move up the economic class than down. For example, the wealthy people that have been inherited the wealth didn't start off the same as the unwealthy making it somewhat unfair since the rich took from the poor back in the days. The people that start off good are the ones who mostly hands down everything to their children making them succeed and then seeing their success as "earned". Ernie Franzier, a 65-year-old real estate investor in Houston says, "I think the system is as fair as you can make it," meaning that even if life isn't fair and no matter how we started off we can all make it by working hard and having a good education. Even when someone dies all the valuables go to some type of relative or person they know, then leaving them an opportunity of chance to succeed. “Class is rank, it is

n the video series “Unnatural Causes,” the focus is primarily oriented towards providing the viewer with insight as to some of the problems that various groups of people, often in the lower socioeconomic class, are enduring typically through no fault of their own. A number of common denominators were apparent in the episodes and these included: the relationship between health and wealth, how the expressed pessimism and hopelessness of the people due to circumstances affected their health, and the pervasive inequality that exists in the American social structure through past social injustices and its resultant effects (Adelman, 2008). I thought the series presented this information well by showing it both through the perspective of those that

To begin, the film, Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and In Wealth, explores the relationship between levels of income and race with health and longevity as a result of studies conducted in distinctive counties throughout Louisville, Kentucky. The subjects of the study are within the differing stratum of classes - the working, middle, and upper classes. The film provides compelling data from within each class and correlates the effects of external stressors, environment, living situations and education levels to

Have you ever wondered why the South of the Bronx have the highest rate of children with asthma? Well, the place matters, our social and physical environment determinates what kind of disease people are exposed to. Unnatural Causes presents on its episode Place Matters how the environment which people are in contact constantly affects people’s health. When it comes to health there is a lot of conditions that are related to our health status. Poverty, and the neighborhood are some of the factors make our environment healthy or unhealthy. According to the film there is a social pattern in the environment where we live that keep us unhealthy. It is hard for low income people change their way their live, to transform the economics of their community and to make their neighborhood safer. In fact, it becomes almost impossible to change the environment where less fortunate people live because nobody wants to invent into the community, and they have to carry with disparity. Violence, chronic stress and “poverty taxes” are some factors that influence our environment.

Poverty and inequality are very closely linked together and have a significant effect on a person’s social, physical and mental well-being. The social class also has an impact on infant mortality rate; this is because children are born to poorer parents that live in poor conditions, these children are more likely to get illnesses or worst case scenario they could die. People from a higher social class are less likely to die of conditions such cancer, heart disease and strokes. People that live in a higher social class tend to live longer than others. Individuals that live in deprived areas have a very different lifestyle to higher class people. Individuals in the lower social class are more likely to smoke, less likely to have a good education and more likely live in poverty for their

Imagine working in a company since you were the age of 16. As you got older you got your high school diploma but stayed in the job, the place were you maybe meet the person you decided you wanted to spend the rest of your life. Imagine it’s the job that you kept though the years of building a family. Now imagine you are maybe your 60’s and close to retiring , but the company announces that they are closing and moving out. Imagine that you become unemployed and your entire life flips. Would minimum wage be sufficient to have the life that you have worked so hard for. To make matters worse imagine the whole community being under that situation. The loss a big company in a community that is dependent cost the Unemployment of many, it In the short video “Unnatural Causes: Not Just a Paycheck” we are introduced to the world of a small community that starts to disintegrate. The community becomes victim to unemployment, chronic illness, and increase its excessive deaths.

Social condition always plays a critical role in the health of the population, and it is quite vital to understand it if a population wishes to live a healthy life. The video is interesting as it tries to make a connection between healthy bank accounts, healthy bodies, and skin color. The episode mostly focuses on the case study of Louisville, Kentucky to figure out why we get sick in the first place and what is the deeper correlation between sickness and class and racial inequalities.

The stress accumulated over several years can cause physical illness which could lead to absenteeism and “higher employee turnover”. (Hellriegel & Slocum)

At the same time, the class hierarchy and the inequality also have a lot of contact. The people who have different social background will have completely different life. Accounting to “The social class structure of Canada” in “Our society” Angelini introduced the characteristics of the upper-class people are going to the expensive private school or university and they can take over the family business when they group up. The characteristics of the middle-class people are having cars and house or condo; in addition, they have a stable job and some insurances. The characteristics of the working-class people are working with an unsafe job, less education, less opportunities to get the jobs, also low income. The characteristics of the sub working class are around 20% people are homeless people, they just live depend on the welfare, just little or no income. They just live in an independent city with special thought and culture (Angelini, 2012, p86-88). The wealthy people get the more, the poor people get the less. On the basis of these, the media also using different way to show us the inequality because of class hierarchy; furthermore, we will see that in the face of different classes, people have different stereotypes on them. Firstly, the social media showed the food what they eat. The newsfeed which the pictures showed Jack Ma ate fast noodle and pickles, people’s comment is “the richest man is so toilsome”, and surprise on it; besides, also had other pictures showed other

(Swaminathan & Rajkumar, 2103) described effect of stress on age , working hours , job type , job positions with taking into considerations different work environment with its contribution to stress and the effect of workplace of different employees positions with their

As the definition of health has evolved over the years, the framework surrounding the concept has as well. For instance, rather than measure health versus illness, it is now more common to compare “wellness” to illness. Similarly, the context of responsibility has been shaped and redefined to fall on the shoulders of the individual. That is, now a person’s health is seen almost exclusively as his or her responsibility. Rather than consider illness as an unfortunate and usually uncontrollable happening, more recently, it has been seen as a moral failing on the part of the afflicted (Faircloth 2017). Any activity that does not promote wellness is seen as risking illness. Hence, because we have control over our actions, a persona health status at any given juncture is the result of his or actions alone.

I believe that this is an important question to answer as though there are stressors in the everyday working lives