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The Docuseek Health and Health Care Collection

THE HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE COLLECTION features over 400 award-winning films on health, healthcare and medicine from the leading distributors of social-issue and documentary film. Films address addiction and substance abuse, aging, death and dying, disabilities, economics of healthcare, environmental health, ethics, healthcare delivery, history of medicine, illness, disease and disorders, maternal and child health, psychology and mental health, public health, nursing, nutrition, sexuality, and more. Docuseek films examine health and healthcare in its social and historical context; essential resources for helping students to respond better to the challenges of today.

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The Docuseek Health and Health Care Collection includes the following titles:

The Hospice - imageThe Hospice
Workers at the Mother of Mercy hospice in Zambia provide palliative care for those afflicted with AIDS.
Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 23 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Yemeni Futures - imageYemeni Futures
More than a decade after its unification, Yemen is still struggling to improve the standard of living.
Bullfrog Films | 2005 | 26 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Kill Or Cure? - imageKill Or Cure?
India's $4.5 billion dollar pharmaceutical industry that serves the world's poor is at a crossroads.
Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 26 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Life 5 - Killing Poverty - imageLife 5 - Killing Poverty

Has the corruption in Kenya lessened under its new president?

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 27 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
The Great Health Service Swindle - imageThe Great Health Service Swindle
Reversing the brain drain in doctors and nurses from developing countries.
Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 26 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
The Silent Crisis - imageThe Silent Crisis
The Central African Republic struggles to avoid economic and social chaos.
Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 26 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Collision Course - imageCollision Course
Reviews the positive steps being taken in India and Brazil to confront the serious public health issue presented by traffic accidents.
Bullfrog Films | 2008 | 27 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Life 6 - No Country For Young Girls? - imageLife 6 - No Country For Young Girls?

A young Indian woman has to choose - stay with a husband who doesn't want female children, or make it on her own.

Bullfrog Films | 2008 | 27 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Running On Empty - imageRunning On Empty
Highlights the plight of two young mothers - one in South Wales and the other in Northern Ethiopia.
Bullfrog Films | 2008 | 29 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Life 8 - Grace Under Fire - imageLife 8 - Grace Under Fire

Dr. Grace Kodindo explores what help is available for the people, particularly women, affected by the ongoing and bloody conflict in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.

Bullfrog Films | 2011 | 26 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult

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