Reel Faith November 17: The Problem of Healthcare Inequity

“UNNATURAL Causes: Is Inequality making us sick?” – A Free FILM EVENT – Wednesday, November 17, 2010, 7 – 9 pm – "UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" is the award-winning documentary series broadcast by PBS that sounds the alarm about our huge and alarming socio-economic and racial inequities in health – and searches for their causes. And those causes are not what we might expect. UNNATURAL CAUSES crisscrosses the country, investigating startling new findings that suggest there is much more to our health than bad habits, health care or unlucky genes. While we spend billions on drugs, dietary supplements and new medical technologies, the series circles in on a slow killer hidden in plain view: the social circumstances in which we are born, live and work can actually get under our skin and affect our risk for disease as surely as germs and viruses.

Join us for the one hour film followed by a community meeting with guest speakers to discuss the implications of the film and to consider how we might bring change to the health care situation right here in our neighborhood.