Unnatural Causes in Sickness and In Wealth Discussion

This week we finish our exploration of social institutions and poverty by discussing the interaction between poverty and health & medicine.

After completing this module, students should be able to:
Explain how poverty affects access to and quality of medical care
Identify food deserts and food insecurity and how they affect health and poverty
Challenge preconceived ideas about how poverty, health and access to the medical system intersect

Instructions

Watch Ron Finley’s TED Talk A Guerrilla Gardener in South Central LA and Unnatural Causes episode “In Sickness & In Wealth” on Kanopy https://memphis.kanopy.com/memphis/video/sickness-… 

Ron Finley: A guerrilla gardener in South Central LA | TED Talk
• Read your choice of one of the selections from Barr’s Health Disparities in the US 3rd Ed. and your choice of one of the selections from Cooper’s Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform
• Submit Free Form Essay 5
• Post in at least two of the Discussions for the week and reply to some of your classmates

This is the Dropbox folder for your free-form essay on health & medicine and poverty. Be sure that your essay contains no fewer than one full page of text, and is double-spaced in Arial 12pt font with 1 inch margins.  You may upload in .doc, .docx or .pdf format.  No other formats will be accepted.

Choose two prompts from the following list and answer them in at least five sentences each.  Clearly list which prompt you are responding to.  Stating the prompt you will respond to does not count as a sentence of the five minimum requirement.  Prompt 1 – For this prompt, you will respond with your thoughts on at least one section of the Barr Health Disparities in the U.S. reading.

Prompt 2 – For this Discussion, you will respond with your thoughts on at least one section of the Cooper Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform reading.

Prompt 3 – For this Discussion, you will post your thoughts about the information from the Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and In Wealth video.

Prompt 4 – For this Discussion, you will post your thoughts about the information from the Ron Finley TED Talk “A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA” video.

• Prompt 5 – At this link, you’ll find a 20 minute supplemental video to the film Critical Condition called Your Money or Your Life.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFk1w_QNR7gLinks to an external site.
  Given what you’ve read about poverty and healthcare, what are your thoughts?Prompt 6 – For each of the social institutions we study this semester, you will have the option of making a Discussion post that applies what you learned in the module to something you have seen external to class.  Have you seen examples of it in the news or other media, like a television show, song or video game?  Link to it or paste in a screenshot and explain how concepts of poverty are illustrated.