Picture of Health (8 Parts)

Synopsis

Films intended to challenge the notion that ill-health is a matter merely for individual concern, arguing that society is also involved, and change must come about through political action.
1: Argues that the National Health Service did not created equality in health care. Focuses on Tower Hamlets, a working-class area with a high incidence of occupational ill health. Residents explain the ways in which their health is affected by housing, work and generally poor environment. It is social and economic factors such as these that perpetuate class differences in health and life expectancy.
2: Gender difference are a cause in health disparity: women are more likely than men to become smokers and suffer the consequent associated diseases. Follows ten women to ascertain their reasons for smoking. Often it is seen as a solution to social problems.
3: Asks who cares for the carers, noting that hospital workers are prone to suffer from many occupational health hazards, including stress. The hospital environment can be seen as a microcosm of all workplaces.
4: Fats, sugar and salt added to processed foods have led to a big increase in coronary heart disease, with Scotland and Ireland having the highest rate in the world. The programme suggests that part of the blame must be the responsibility of the food industry which is motivated by profit rather than good nutrition.
5: Looks at the relationship between ill-health and the use of pesticides, questioning the way pesticides are regulated in Britain, given that the Ministry of Agriculture as a dual role as both regulator and promoter of agricultural production. Examines the struggle by the farm workers union to have 245-T, with its deadly dioxin content, banned in Britain.
6: Notes that Western farming methods often exacerbate poor sanitation, inadequate housing and lack of food and water, which are the primary causes of ill health in the third world, and looks at the effects of cash cropping and pesticides and how they are affecting health in Kenya.
7: Looks at a health project near Dacca in angladesh, which may provide a model for a new concept of health care. Illiterate and landless women are trained in metalwork and carpentry, employed in a pharmaceutical factory and offered the chance of a basic education. The factory makes essential drugs at low cost, and everyone, including docotrs and paramedics, starts the day by working on the land together, striving to make the project self-sufficient in food.
8: Focuses on continuing risks to health of workers in the chemical dye industry as seen by workers themselves, union health and safety professionals, and a GP and workers involved with the Sheffield Occupational Health Project. Notes variou facts contributing to the present knowledge about cancer in the dye industry and stresses the need for better protection through legislation, work practices and health surveillance.

Language

English

Country

Great Britain

Medium

Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 8 x 50 min.

Year of production

1984

Availability

Hire
Sale; 1993 sale: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

Subjects

Development studies; Health & safety; Social welfare

Keywords

health education; health services; heart disease; nutrition; occupational health; pesticides; smoking; textile industries; toxic substances

Sections

Title

Bit of class, A

Synopsis

1: Argues that the National Health Service did not created equality in health care. Focuses on Tower Hamlets, a working-class area with a high incidence of occupational ill health. Residents explain the ways in which their health is affected by housing, w

Title

Lady killers, The

Synopsis

2: Gender difference are a cause in health disparity: women are more likely than men to become smokers and suffer the consequent associated diseases. Follows ten women to ascertain their reasons for smoking. Often it is seen as a solution to social proble

Title

Who cares?

Synopsis

3: Asks who cares for the carers, noting that hospital workers are prone to suffer from many occupational health hazards, including stress. The hospital environment can be seen as a microcosm of all workplaces.

Title

Eat your heart out

Synopsis

4: Fats, sugar and salt added to processed foods have led to a big increase in coronary heart disease, with Scotland and Ireland having the highest rate in the world. The programme suggests that part of the blame must be the responsibility of the food ind

Title

Just like rain

Synopsis

5: Looks at the relationship between ill-health and the use of pesticides, questioning the way pesticides are regulated in Britain, given that the Ministry of Agriculture as a dual role as both regulator and promoter of agricultural production. Examines t

Title

Growing problem, A

Synopsis

6: Notes that Western farming methods often exacerbate poor sanitation, inadequate housing and lack of food and water, which are the primary causes of ill health in the third world, and looks at the effects of cash cropping and pesticides and how they are

Title

Bangladesh: the people’s health

Synopsis

7: Looks at a health project near Dacca in angladesh, which may provide a model for a new concept of health care. Illiterate and landless women are trained in metalwork and carpentry, employed in a pharmaceutical factory and offered the chance of a basic

Title

Dyeing industry, The

Synopsis

8: Focuses on continuing risks to health of workers in the chemical dye industry as seen by workers themselves, union health and safety professionals, and a GP and workers involved with the Sheffield Occupational Health Project. Notes variou facts contrib

Production Company

Name

Scope Films

Sponsor

Name

Channel Four Television

Phone

071-396 4444

Address

LONDON
SW1P 2TX

Distributor

Name

Concord Media

Email

sales@concordmedia.org.uk

Web

http://www.concordmedia.org.uk/ External site opens in new window

Phone

01473 726 012

Address

Rosehill Centre
22 Hines Road
Ipswich
IP3 9BG

Notes

A long-established, not-for-profit organisation with a large collection DVDs, specialising in the sectors of general and mental health, child care, race relations, war and peace, addictions, the third world, ecology, civil rights, personal relationships, educational issues, and social work training. Concord also handles titles made for the Graves Medical Audio-visual Library. Sale on DVD. Formerly known as Concord Video and Film Council. In 2014 Concord began to offer selected films as Video on Demand, via Vimeo.