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What went wrong for the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab? This film investigates how safety scares and vaccine nationalism threatened to derail the ‘workhorse vaccine for the world’. Combining compelling insider interviews with archive footage and original journalism, this film investigates how early missteps with a Covid-19 vaccine by the pharma company Oxford-AstraZeneca was blown up by politicians across the US and Europe. It navigates through the twists...
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Effective exam preparation requires thorough and systematic revision. While different people approach revision in different ways, there are some basic techniques that all students will find helpful. This film covers a range of study and revision techniques, focusing on knowledge and understanding, application, analysis and evaluation. Edexcel’s Sharon Hague and Head of Sixth Form Brian McGowan provide an excellent insight for students on preparing...
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Using Alabama as a case study in rural health, this NewsHour program discusses a CDC report that shows that maternal deaths nearly doubled over three years, with over 1,200 deaths in 2021. In rural communities, where maternal mortality is almost double urban rates, there is a constant struggle to access lifesaving maternal healthcare. With support from the Pulitzer Center and in collaboration with the Global Health Reporting Center, Stephanie Sy reports...
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Some migrant children in federal custody have tested positive for Covid-19, drawing calls for the government to do more to protect them. It’s a problem that has reopened the long legal battle over the Flores settlement, a consent decree that set the rules on the health and rights of children in custody.
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" From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws. In five concise chapters, historian John Fabian Witt traces the legal history of epidemics, showing how infectious disease has both shaped, and been shaped by, the law. Arguing that throughout American history legal approaches to public health have been liberal for some communities...
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Dr. Jackson searches past and present America for healthy, sustainable communities of all sizes and shapes that can serve as models for the rest of the nation. His journey takes him to Roseto, PA, Prairie Crossing, IL, New York City, Charleston, SC, and the forgotten 1960s urban renewal project of Lafayette Park in Detroit, MI, the brainchild of 4 men, including visionary architect, Mies van der Rohe. Also included are walkability expert, Dan Burden,...
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Dr. Jackson believes it is every citizen’s right to live in a clean, healthy environment. This isn’t the case for many low-income neighborhoods, built near big transportation hubs and struggling industrial cities like Oakland, CA and Detroit, MI. We meet a morbidly obese grandmother struggling to raise seven grandchildren, all of whom have asthma as a result of living near the Port of Oakland. The city of Detroit resembles an abandoned war zone....
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Dr. Richard Jackson MD MPH, investigates the link between our nation’s obesity and Type 2 Diabetes epidemic with urban sprawl fueled by car dependency. To prevent disease through better urban planning, Boulder, CO redesigns the city to make bicycles a safe alternative transportation. Two Denver suburbs transform dead malls into mixed use and public transit-centered communities. An abandoned mall in Georgia gains new life as a K-8th grade charter...
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When U.S. industry and manufacturing collapsed or went elsewhere, cities like Elgin, IL, and Syracuse, NY, (like many communities in the United States) were left with the task of redefining themselves for a new paradigm. Leading the way to a greener, more sustainable Elgin is a group of high school students. Despite many innovative programs to get Syracuse back on its feet, the city struggles with the larger problem of Lake Onondaga, the most polluted...
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Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off fear and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. A fascinating medical mystery and timely examination of the relationship between the medical community, city powerbrokers and the Chinese-American community, Plague at the Golden Gate tells the gripping story of the race against time to save San Francisco and the nation from the deadly plague.
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Even though it is only 90 miles from the coast of Florida, Cuba feels a world away. The classic cars, the architecture, the music, and the people all combine to create the sights and sounds of Havana. Dr. Sanjay Gupta traveled to Havana to learn more about the Cuban healthcare system. Despite being one of the poorest countries, Cuba's healthcare is relatively strong in many ways. From a big emphasis on screenings and preventative care to vaccine innovations,...