Award-Winning Four-Part Documentary Series Unnatural Causes Returns to PBS Nationwide October 2009

1. Award-Winning Four-Part Documentary Series Unnatural Causes
Returns to PBS Nationwide October 2009
A groundbreaking documentary revealing the connection between systematic
social injustice and declining public health will re-air nationally on PBS.
Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? returns to public television this
fall, offering a fresh perspective to the intensifying national healthcare debate.
Premiering March 2008, Unnatural Causes proclaimed that the conditions in
which we are born, live and work profoundly affect our health outcomes more
than any factor. The film inspired unprecedented public engagement of health
advocates, social justice organizations and local government officials who
continue advance the position that solutions rest outside of meds, behavior or
genes and must be grounded in reversing growing income, racial and structural
inequalities. Produced and distributed by California Newsreel, the oldest non-
profit, social issue documentary film center in the country, Unnatural Causes
returns to PBS October 2009.
California Newsreel welcomed numerous awards for Unnatural Causes including:
· 2009 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award
· 2009 NIHCM Foundation's Second Annual Television and Radio
Journalism Award
· 2009 Henry Hampton Award, Council on Foundations
· 2009 Media Award, New Mexico and Illinois Public Health Associations
· 2009 Radio & Television Journalism Award, National Institute for Health
Care Management Foundation
· 2009 Runner up for Hillman Prize, The Sidney Hillman Foundation
· 2008 Leadership in Journalism Award, Congressi onal Black Caucus
Health Braintrust / National Minority Quality Forum
McKinney and Associates was proud to lead the publicity efforts for this masterful
and timely documentary in 2008.