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:
Documenting the least-known part of the civil rights movement, these are the first-person stories of people with developmental disabilities labeled 'mentally defective' who were sent away to state institutions.
A look at the processed food industry and at the ways that junk food and beverages are marketed to children
Looks at the role microbes play in the development, physical and mental health of our children, and argues that good health begins with kids playing in the dirt.
A touching and honest glimpse into the intimate self-explorations of several women in their 40's, 50's, and 60's as they face the natural reality of sags and bags, lines and wrinkles.
Disabled women write open letters to the world about their plight.
Julia, Ina, Olga and Katia are inmates held in a Siberian mental facility against their wishes.
Examines prospects for Vitamin A distribution programs in Guatemala and Ghana necessary for children's health.
A group of health professionals tours the most deprived regions of South Africa providing care.
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