Unnatural Causes Video In Sickness and in Wealth
Who did the Whitehall study look at (describe the participants they studied) and what did they find was the connection between health and employment grade?
What is the wealth-health gradient?
What stories from Jim Taylor’s life illustrate how wealth, power, and status translate into better health?
What did the monkey research study teach us about the connections between power, subordination, and health?Discuss how stress impacted the health of the dominant versus subordinate monkeys.
Why would changes that promote greater equity (equality) translate into population health improvements?
What are some of the chronic stressors mentioned in the film that affect our health? (list 5)
Discuss how societal forces create and reinforce the stressors you listed above?
What additional set of stressors might racism impose?
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Unnatural Causes Video in Sickness and in Wealth
Who did the Whitehall study look at (describe the participants they studied) and what did they find was the connection between health and employment grade?- The Whitehall study investigated the impact of socioeconomic factors on people’s health, particularly the prevalence of cardiovascular illness and its mortality rates. The participants of the study were British civil servants. The first part of the study, Whitehall I study, evaluated responses from 17,500 male civil servants aged between 20 and 64. The first study began in 1967 and lasted for ten years. The second study that lasted between 1985 and 1988 scrutinized the health of 10,308 British male and female servants aged between 35 and 55. Whitehall’s studies discovered a correlation between civil servants’ grade levels and mortality rates from several factors.
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