In Sickness and in Wealth

          Watch the first segment of the film, In Sickness and in Wealth,Answer the following questions What did the Whitehall study reveal about the connection between health and wealth? What is the wealth-health gradient? David Williams says: “Stress helps motivate us. In our society today everybody experiences stress. The person who has no stress is a person who is dead.” Describe the body’s stress (fight- or-flight) response. How is chronic stress different? How might chronic stress increase the risk of illness and disease? How do the lives of Jim Taylor, Tondra Young, Corey Anderso and Mary Turner exemplify concepts like the wealth-health gradient and the importance of power and control? Make sure you discuss each of these individuals in detail and make comparisons between them. Are health outcomes affected by a person’s race? If so, how and why? What does comparing data maps of disease rates in the different Louisville council districts reveal?