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Commonwealth Fund
U.S. Variations in Child Health System Performance: A State Scorecard
This interactive map shows where states rank in indicators for children’s health of access, quality, costs, equity, and the potential to lead healthy lives. This can be especially useful with the action steps introduced at the close of session two of Vision and Voice.
PBS Frontline
Sick Around the World
This 50-minute documentary, presented in five chapters, looks at the health systems of five capitalist democracies, asking whether the United States can learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a healthcare system.
On the Frontline web site you will also find a guide for group viewing of the documentary and other resources including interviews with health policy experts, a Q & A analysis of the program, a Q & A of exchange with producer T. R. Reid, readings, relevant links and more.
Watch a Charlie Rose interview with Sick Around the World producer T. R. Reid, former writer for the Washington Post.
Universal Health Care and the Common Good
The Health Care “Table of Plenty”: Who Gets a Chair?
Maureen Fiedler is the host and creator of Interfaith Voices, which debuted in 2002. She has a long history of working with interfaith coalitions on human rights, social justice, women’s rights and peace. She holds a Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University.
- Dr. Ann Neale, Senior Research Scholar, Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University,
- Dr. Ahmed Moen, Professor in Health Management Sciences, Howard University
- Dr. Len Nichols, Director of the Health Policy Program, New America Foundation
- Rev. Linda Walling, Executive Director of Faithful Reform in Health Care
Unnatural Causes sounds the alarm about socio-economic and racial inequities in health and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. There’s much more to our health than bad habits, health care or unlucky genes. The social conditions in which we are born, live and work profoundly affect our well-being and longevity. To find out more about this film, go to: http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=UNAT
Voices of Healing: Personal Testimonies and Reflections from the Interfaith Fellowship for Universal Health Care offers compelling and beautifully presented thoughts of faith leaders from a variety of traditions.
