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The Unnatural Causes video series was the focus of a discussion group that gathered at the Heritage Park visitors' center at Battleship Cove on March 4, 2009. Organized by the Access to Healthcare Task Force of Partners for a Healthier Community, Inc., the program featured an airing of the first of seven video programs produced by California Newsreel in association with Vital Pictures. The series has been presented on PBS television over the past year by the National Minority Consortia.  It was conceived in association with leading public health, policy and community-based organizations and is helping reframe the national debate about what we as a society can, and should, do to address our glaring health inequities. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino has described the videos as “An eye-opening series everyone should watch and discuss.  It reveals the links between living conditions, public policy and health. A powerful and long-awaited resource.” For more information about the series, contact Director of Community Relations and Development Paula Harrison at 774-627-1204.
 

(Top row, left) Healthy City Fall River Coordinator David S. Weed, Psy.D. welcomes the audience to the first public showing of the Unnatural Causes series in Fall River. (Top row, right) HealthFirst Family Care Center Director of Community Relations and Development Paula Harrison introduces the series to the audience. (Middle row, left) HealthFirst Chief Operating Officer Julie Almond watches the video. (Middle row, right) Paula Harrison talks with Tom Flanagan prior to the group discussion. (Bottom row, left) Connie Melanson and Linda Hennessy of the HealthFirst clinic help themselves to refreshments. (Bottom row, right) Randi Pacheco and her husband Arthur of the AFLAC Insurance Company respond to what they saw in the video.

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