Video and Multimedia

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Video Links:

  • 14.1 AIDS
    Description: Through interviews with AIDS researchers, world leaders, activists, and patients, FRONTLINE investigates the science, politics, and human cost of this fateful disease and asks: What are the lessons of the past, and what can be done to stop AIDS?
     
  • 14.2 Health Care System
    Description: This video from Ted Talks features Rebecca Onie who discusses our healthcare system and asks the question: What if our healthcare system worked at keeping us healthy?
     
  • 14.3 Zika Virus
    Description: Dr. Bergman shows the facts and research behind the Zika virus and explains why you shouldn't believe everything you hear on the media.

Audio Links:

  • 14.1 Health Care System
    Description: An hour explaining the American health care system, specifically, why it is that costs keep rising. One story looks at the doctors, one at the patients and one at the insurance industry.
     
  • 14.2 Homosexuality and Mental Illness
    Description: The story of how the American Psychiatric Association decided in 1973 that homosexuality was no longer a mental illness.
     
  • 14.3 Disabililty Payments
    Description: The number of Americans receiving federal disability payments has nearly doubled over the last 15 years. There are towns and counties around the nation where almost 1/4 of adults are on disability. Chana Joffe-Walt spent 6 months exploring the disability program, and emerges with a story of the U.S. economy quite different than the one we've been hearing.

Web Resources:

  • 14.1 Healthcare and the Aging
    Description: By 2030, 1 in 5 Americans will be over age 65 and the result will be more healthcare costs in the future.
     
  • 14.2 Canadian Healthcare
    Description: This website provides information regarding Canada's health care system, which is comprised of socialized health care plans that provides coverage to all Canadian citizens. 
     
  • 14.3 Depression
    Description: This article from Contexts Magazine examines the rates of depression between blacks and whites and the consequences of having depression.
     
  • 14.4 Mental Health Care Coverage
    Description: This article from Pacific Standard Magazine focuses on the fact that despite progress being made in regards to coverage being provided by the Affordable Care Act millions of Americans who have mental health issues are still not being treated properly due to a lack of health care coverage.