Go to the BMCC Library website – https://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/library/ and click on Databases. Select Video Databases, then select Kanopy Streaming Videos. If you are not on campus, you will have to log in with your BMCC log-on (the same credentials you use to log into computers on campus). When you are in the Kanopy database, search for Unnatural Causes. Your result will say Collection on it. Watch the movie titled In Sickness and in Wealth. Answer the below questions fully.
- Define social determinants of health from the readings and from the movie. Give examples from the movie and your own life. Is the US the healthiest nation in the world? Why or why not?
- What are some health behaviors that lead to illness?
- What did the Whitehall study show about the connection between health and wealth? Define the wealth-health gradient.
- How do the lives of Jim Taylor, Tondra Young, Corey Anderson and Mary Turner exemplify concepts like the wealth-health gradient and the importance of power and control? What does comparing data maps of disease rates in the different Louisville council districts show us? What might explain the differences in life expectancy, rates of disease and rates of excess death?
- Describe examples from the film that illustrate how racism imposes an additional health burden on people of color. Give examples of both “everyday” racism (being treated unfairly) and “structural” racism (access to resources, power, status and wealth) and describe how these might affect health in different ways.
- What kinds of employment, education, housing, or transportation polices do we need today to promote health equity? Think about some of the programs and policies that other industrialized countries in the world have. What obstacles and opportunities exist now in the United States of America? Are there any programs or policies that you have seen in your neighborhood or community?
