The Docuseek Health and Health Care Collection
THE HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE COLLECTION features over 400 award-winning films on health, healthcare and medicine from the leading distributors of social-issue and documentary film. Films address addiction and substance abuse, aging, death and dying, disabilities, economics of healthcare, environmental health, ethics, healthcare delivery, history of medicine, illness, disease and disorders, maternal and child health, psychology and mental health, public health, nursing, nutrition, sexuality, and more. Docuseek films examine health and healthcare in its social and historical context; essential resources for helping students to respond better to the challenges of today.
The Docuseek Health and Health Care Collection includes the following titles:
Toxic chemicals are the greatest threat to the survival of indigenous peoples.
Literacy program spurs anti-liquor campaign in rural India and empowers women.
The story of 120 years of gold mining and racial capitalism leads to disease and extreme poverty which endures into the present.
Mayor Amilcar Huancahuari visits Brazil to assess efforts to promote early childhood development there.
Mayor Amilcar Huancahuari is trying to convert his native Peru to his optimistic philosophy of promoting early childhood development.
Diagnosed with learning difficulties, Tori finds her greatest teacher in nature, spending a "gap year" living semi-primitively with four other young women in Oregon's Cascade Mountains.
Jose is an excellent student with a bright future except that he is undocumented, the child of migrant farm laborers in California's Salinas Valley.
Eleven-year-old Jessica copes with Stargardt's, an inherited form of macular degeneration.
From dusk to dawn Martin watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico's most notorious drug lords.
Candid accounts from victims of elder abuse.
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