A nation-wide campaign to raise awareness about how the social circumstances in which we are born, live and work can get under our skin and disrupt our biology as surely as germs and viruses.

The root causes of poor health will be extensively explored in this upcoming four-part documentary series airing on WJCT (PBS Channel 7 or Comcast channel 8.).

• March 27th at 10:00 P.M.

• April 3rd at 10:00 P.M.

• April 10th at 10:00 P.M.

• April 17 at 10:00 p.m.

Learn more about how racism, poverty, stress, education, housing and transportation policies can make us sick.

Jacksonville is one of more than 100 communities throughout the nation that will partner with a new national campaign entitled “Unnatural Causes”.  Through this national partnership, communities across the America will work to build strategic alliances across sectors to closely examine how social conditions and policies around housing, the environment, transportation and economics closely factor into our health and wellbeing.  This campaign will offer Jacksonville an exciting opportunity to work together as a community to gain a better understanding of the root causes of poor health, and to examine and learn from other innovative, community-based approaches to improving health and social conditions.  Information is also available at www.unnaturalcauses.org

Duval County Health Department will be partnering throughout the community to host local screenings of “Unnatural Causes”, and will also be hosting community forums and a Town Hall meeting to discuss health equity issues in Jacksonville.  These forums will work to highlight promising practices and initiatives already occurring in our community, and will also seek to identify other local solutions and policy level changes that can be made.

For more information on how you can get involved, please call Duval County Health Department at (904) 253-2520.