Rx for survival : a global health challenge

DVD 2005

Over the past 150 years, stunning breakthroughs in public health have enabled humans to live longer, healthier and more productive lives. But the benefits of public health have yet to be extended to many of the poorest nations in the developing world. Meanwhile, in the past two decades, infectious diseases that had nearly been conquered, such as tuberculosis, have come surging back, while devastating new diseases such as AIDS, SARS and West Nile...

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Widescreen

Description:

3 videodiscs (336 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
digital optical
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polychrome

Target Audience Note:

CHVR: NR

Other Title:

Prescription for survival
Nova (Television program)

Notes:

DVD release of the six-hour PBS television series that premiered November 1-3, 2005 and a two-hour special presentation on April 12, 2006
Special features: NOW interview with former President Jimmy Carter ; dispatches from experts in the field ; materials for educators ; activities for exploring global health issues ; access to the Rx for Survival web site
Paula S. Apsell, Director of the WGBH Science Unit ; Larry Klein, WGBH/NOVA executive producer, writer, producer, director ; Paul G. Allen, Executive in Charge of Vulcan Productions ; Jody Patton, President and Executive in Charge of Vulcan Productions ; Richard E. Hutton, Vice President of Media Development and executive producer of Vulcan Productions
Narrator, Brad Pitt. Experts include Jeffrey Sachs, the Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University; reporter Laurie Garrett; Harvey Fineberg, President of the National Academies of Sciences Institute of Medicine; Nils Daulaire, President of the Global Health Council; and Donald Hopkins, the Associate Executive Director of the Carter Center
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

Contents:

disc 1. Disease warriors. Rise of the superbugs
disc. 2. Delivering the goods. Deadly messengers
disc 3. Back to the basics. How safe are we?

Control Number:

3272771

UPC:

783421389397

Other Authors:

Allen, Jody, producer
Allen, Paul, 1953-2018, producer
Apsell, Paula S., director
Carter, Jimmy, 1924-
Daulaire, Nils, expert
Fineberg, Harvey V., expert
Garrett, Laurie, reporter
Hopkins, Donald R., expert
Hutton, Richard E., producer
Klein, Larry (Producer), screenwriter, director, producer
Pitt, Brad, 1963- narrator
Sachs, Jeffrey, expert
Vulcan Productions
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.). Science Unit
WGBH Video (Firm)

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