Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

Unnatural Causes tackles the root causes of the alarming socio-economic and racial inequities in health in the United States. 
Director

Producers: Larry Adelman, Llewellyn M. Smith, Wendy Riseborough, Kelly Thomson

Production Company
Vital Pix / California Newsreel

Release Date
March 17, 2008

Unnatural Causes is an acclaimed documentary series broadcast by PBS and now used by thousands of organizations around the country to tackle the root causes of the country's alarming socio-economic and racial inequities in health. The four-hour series crisscrosses the nation uncovering startling new findings that suggest there is much more to our health than bad habits, health care, or unlucky genes. The social circumstances in which we are born, live, and work can actually get under our skin and disrupt our physiology as much as germs and viruses.

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