This learning resource is comprised of 4 1-hour public television segments. The information is available as PDF transcripts and video clips for each segment. The learning resource would be beneficial to any health sciences pre-professional student studying community or public health. To quote information from the web site:
This is a story about health, but it's not about doctors or drugs. It's about why some of us get sicker more often and die sooner and what causes us to fall ill in the first place.
UNNATURAL CAUSES criss-crosses the country investigating the stories and findings that are shaking up conventional notions about what makes us healthy or sick. It turns out there's much more to our well-being than genes, behaviors and medical care. The social, economic, and physical environments in which we are born, live and work profoundly affect our longevity and health - as much as smoking, diet and exercise.
The series sheds light on mounting evidence of how lack of access to power and resources can get under the skin and disrupt human biology as surely as germs and viruses. It also reveals a health gradient tied to wealth: those at the top of the class pyramid average longer, healthier lives, while those at the bottom are the most disempowered, get sicker more often and die sooner. Most of us fall somewhere in between.
