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UNNATURAL CAUSES: IS INEQUALITY MAKING US SICK?”

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? Spawns Health Equity Movement

Since the national broadcast of the PBS documentary Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Health Policy Institute has taken a leading role in partnering with other organizations and individuals to foster public engagement around Unnatural Causes and health equity issues. Key partners include the Intercultural Cancer Council, the National Healthy Start Association, the Black Women's Health Imperative and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Health Brain Trust.

We encourage you to learn more about Unnatural Causes and the health equity movement by visiting the new and improved website at www.unnaturalcauses.org. Featuring send-to-a-friend video clips, educational activities, original case studies, background on the series, tools for action, an Ask the Experts forum, the Connect up! Directory of organizations and much more!

DVDs of the series may be purchased online through California Newsreel. www.newsreel.org Spanish language DVDs are also available. Also, continue to visit the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies website for more information.

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In 2005, black women, with an incarceration rate of 156 per 100,000 persons, were more than twice as likely as Latina women and three times as likely as white women to be in prison. About 70 percent of the women in prison—many of whom were imprisoned for drug violations—have children under the age of eighteen. Learn more