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Showing 1 - 10 of 42 titles with a criteria of Subject is Economics of Health Care
Abortion: Add to Cart
With increasing burdens on clinics, activists are combining the power of abortion pills and the internet to provide self-managed abortions in a revolutionary way
GOOD DOCS | 2022 | 35 minutes
Below the Belt
The widespread problems in our healthcare systems that disproportionately affect women.
GOOD DOCS | 2023 | 52 minutes
Branding Illness
A documentary expose of how pharmaceutical companies create demand for the drugs at their disposal, and buy the science they need to prove their effectiveness.
Icarus Films | 2011 | 52 minutes
The Chicago Maternity Center Story
The struggle to keep the Chicago Maternity Center open after 75 years.
Kartemquin Films | 1976 | 60 minutes
Cholesterol, the Great Bluff
A rigorous investigation on the cholesterol case, dealing with social, political, scientific and economical issues.
Icarus Films | 2016 | 82 minutes
City Life - Brazil
Brazil has developed generic antiretroviral drugs to care for those afflicted with HIV/AIDS.
Bullfrog Films | 2002 | 27 minutes
The Cost of Living
AIDS drugs unaffordable in developing countries.
Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 24 minutes
Dead Mums Don't Cry
Grace Kodindo's heroic efforts in Chad to lower the rate of maternal mortality, one of the UN's Millennium Development Goals.
Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 49 minutes
Diabetes: A Heavy Cost
Diabetes will affect one adult in 10 by 2040. It is ruining lives and weighing heavily on public finances. The disease is still not being treated properly. A whole system has gone off track because patients either take too many drugs or can no longer afford them. Only the pharmaceutical industry seems to be thriving in this bleak health situation.
Andana Films | 2021 | 85 minutes
The Dirty War on the National Health Service
Filmed in Britain and the United States just prior to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, this timely and compelling documentary by BAFTA and Emmy award-winning journalist John Pilger reveals what may be the last battle to preserve the most fundamental human right of all—the right to health.
Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 106 minutes