Unnatural Causes

As I watched this DVD, I was amazed at how well it connected all of the things we had been discussing in class. I noticed that those individuals with more education lived at a higher socioeconmic status than those with little or no education. Each district in the video reflected a different set of issues to go with the varying socioeconomic statuses of the individuals. Individuals with little or no education tended to have poor diet and more health concerns than those who were well educated. I also noticed that the lower the socioeconomic status of the individual, the shorter their life span and the more health concerns they had, and that those individuals who lived closer to the poverty line were more likely to suffer from abnormal amounts of stress and health ailments such as high blood pressure and diabetes. It was also clear that the socioeconomic status can have a huge impact on the amount of stress placed upon an individual and can therefore have an impact on their overall health and life expectancy. It was also interesting that in human experiments it was found that those individuals who were of higher status had lower cortisol levels than those of lower status.