Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

everyone’s business’ illustrates Jones (2012, p.2). The Faculty of Public Health regard public health as a combination of health protection, health advancement and promoting health (Griffiths and Dark, 2006 cited in Jones p.6 2012). For part 1 of this assignment, public health in context aims to set the scene and illustrate the challenges. Health inequalities arising in society will be addresed and critically evaluated using the Marmot Review and the associated policy objectives in relation to the social determinants of health (SDH), specifically with reference to the ‘living and working condition’ layer education and housing. The core text, reader and online tutor group (OLT) forum will be explored highlighting the complexities…

and remains relatively stable across the adult life. In Europe, however, occupation is the most commonly used measure. According to the “Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making…

relationship between wealth and health shown in the Unnatural Causes video “In Sickness and in Wealth” is proven in Whitehall Studies , by Sir Michael Marmot ,that is, how the socioeconomic status influences the health of a CEO, a sweeper, a lady…

The first thing the author noticed about the video Unnatural Causes-Is Inequality Making Us Sick that environmental factors can have a huge affect on a communities’ health. It did not matter if it was a town in the United States or the Marshall Islands; both had a change in the environment that caused health problems. It makes one wonder what else could stress a community to the point of causing medical problems? With the Marshall Islands it was the limited sanitation, too many people in close…

However, when it comes to public housing, living environments are usually impoverished. Characteristics of living environments include: a whole family living in one bedroom, shared bathrooms with other families, filthy street environments, increased probabilities of crimes, etc. It had not occurred to me previously that such environments could have a toll on one’s health. Such living environments creates stress and produces an allopathic load for families living in these neighborhoods. Watching…

social-economic status is has not improved (Rodriguez 2002). The 2008 PBS documentary, Unnatural Causes...Is Inequality Making Us Sick? follows numerous Mexican-native families in the state of Pennsylvania and their quest to improve their status in America. Amador Bernal, a farm worker starring in the documentary, came from Mexico at the age of 21, an age which played a crucial role in his ability to assimilate into his new surroundings. Bernal works at the Kaolin Mushroom Farms at Kennett…

According to Rousseau, “most of our ills are of our own making” (84). Additionally, while the savage man is absorbed with gathering food and is not plagued by boredom or non-primal desires, freedom dissipates along with the development of inequality as “the excess of idleness among some and the excess of toil among others” (84) becomes present. When a savage man is sick, he has no expectation or desire to see another human such as a doctor. In fact, the sick savage man has “nothing to hope for…