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Health and Health Care Inequities: A Critical Political Economy Perspective
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This book provides an in-depth examination of health and health care inequities, delving into the interplay between power dynamics, policy advocacy, evidence-based research, and political economy. It uniquely integrates document and interview data to critically analyze how inequalities related to class, race, ethnicity, and gender contribute to health inequities. By
Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health edited by Toba Bryant Edward Elgar Press
[cid:85033ade-3b46-4fd4-a048-6efc59cb94f6] Dennis Raphael
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[cid:dc1e1cf1-13fc-4dc2-a113-465eb98b3d05] Dennis Raphael
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Of interest:
The Politics of Food Insecurity in Canada and the United Kingdom https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-politics-of-food-insecurity-in-canada-and-the-united-kingdom
[cid:d13901ae-f05c-44d6-b625-19852e2f8f85] Dennis Raphael
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Of interest:
The Politics of Food Insecurity in Canada and the United Kingdom https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-politics-of-food-insecurity-in-canada-and-the-united-kingdom
[cid:c798944f-93c2-4a91-865e-e26f88d5199c] Dennis Raphael
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Of interest:
The Politics of Food Insecurity in Canada and the United Kingdom https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-politics-of-food-insecurity-in-canada-and-the-united-kingdom
[cid:e2f5ee85-85f9-4c4a-a594-02ba442163a1] Dennis Raphael
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Of interest:
The Politics of Food Insecurity in Canada and the United Kingdom https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-politics-of-food-insecurity-in-canada-and-the-united-kingdom
[cid:29efccff-6096-4a52-adad-5fbc770ebaa8] Dennis Raphael
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The NCCDH has an upcoming webinar that may be of interest to you and your networks – Public health action to transform food systems and advance food justice. This webinar goes along with our recent resource Determining Health: Food systems issue brief<https://nccdh.ca/resources/entry/determining-health-food-systems-issue-brief>. In Canada, the ways we produce, distribute, consume and waste food are linked to significant health inequities. The need to transform food systems toward healthier, more sustainable and just alternatives has never been more evident.
At high risk of driving you crazy you by appearing to focus on health behaviour, I (somewhat timidly) attach a book chapter that I recently produced. While much of your work looks downstream from the social determinants to the health of individuals, this chapter considers the other perspective, looking from the individual upstream. It tries thereby to elicit ways in which those social determinants differentially affect individuals, hence creating social inequalities & inequities. In addition, I have never been fully comfortable with the box-and-arrow models (such as those you surveyed in Chapter 2 of your SDH: Canadian
The whole behavioural approach was debunked in the 1970s by the Marmot Whitehall studies. Every minute you spend looking at behaviour is one minute not looking at the powerful forces that are sickening and killing people in this era of post global capitalism.
Thanks! My concern with an approach that focuses only on upstream determinants is that it has not (yet) proven effective in stemming the tide of growing health inequalities. Moreover, by no means everyone who lives under adverse circumstances gets sick and the ones who do, suffer from a very wide variety of conditions. To understand the whole picture in more detail we need to fill in the steps between underlying determinants and the biological processes of disease. Some may argue that such investigation is merely time-wasting academic masturbation. What we need is to fix the upstream determinants and that will
This virtual issue of Health Promotion International has been specially curated by Editor-in-Chief, Evelyne de Leeuw, to highlight the most influential or impactful papers published in the journal in reference to public policy for health promotion. https://academic.oup.com/heapro/article/35/2/381/5651045?searchresult=1 [https://oup.silverchair-cdn.com/oup/backfile/Content_public/Journal/heapro/Issue/35/2/1/m_heapro_35_2cover.jpeg?Expires=1794850680&Signature=gDYwRC1rGAic8gRU5e2PzQGcThWmGeVnJ5iOKvooBKn9NQUuNRPyM09gHejuPxK4EZ6QeQCiJrm~bZeMsQhrpwVHl2mEio~V~7VFd~VagQJOchmyq07k7aM-Z7hPIJk4hpJQ49ob8-UaKrHAUsGVgTDdaaFoYg8mE-m6MxmJAL-0TFyAH068NdsBpXqIj5u9XiqU0kFEsyB71CIFmxYsUGD~vI7v4dwISk6lpQZoUTyYu6C0b--u~9j4FSXuzZo11xw6~LBWY~Ixs2SX1INQGtj~1mRGD697vQyYNfdf-0nXzcmV8CjrwLwNJ3GGjmMXCYwPqWDBF4aksxZZP2lr0A__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA]<https://academic.oup.com/heapro/article/35/2/381/5651045?searchresult=1> Public policy for health promotion: a special curated collection<https://academic.oup.com/heapro/article/35/2/381/5651045?searchresult=1> The idea that policy-making is required for the promotion of population health is not new. It was implicitly recognized by medieval and renaissance approac academic.oup.com
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Of interest:
About Canada: Health and Illness, 3rd edition https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/about-canada-health-and-illness-3rd-edition
The Politics of Health in the Canadian Welfare State https://canadianscholars.ca/book/the-politics-of-health-in-the-canadian-welfare-state/
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In my graduate class yesterday I was asked how much interest is shown by the media in our SDOH work. I could only come up with one good example.
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[cid:a17a8038-bf4c-464a-97c1-397b54568ab9] Dennis Raphael
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Of interest:
About Canada: Health and Illness, 3rd edition https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/about-canada-health-and-illness-3rd-edition
The Politics of Health in the Canadian Welfare State https://canadianscholars.ca/book/the-politics-of-health-in-the-canadian-welfare-state/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdF_gKtm5kA [https://www.bing.com/th?id=OVP.QwP8Dux0v2RGm_5JlheRkAEsDh&pid=Api]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdF_gKtm5kA> We have the resources to end poverty | Dennis Raphael<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdF_gKtm5kA> Professor Dennis Raphael of York University speaks at Closing the Gap: Better health for all in Ottawa, April 8th, on the tremendous impacts of poverty and inequality on our health outcomes -- and the opportunities we have right now to change it all. www.youtube.com
[cid:2d2e4e89-ea3a-47bd-abad-1b4bafb47118] Dennis Raphael
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Of interest:
About Canada: Health and Illness, 3rd edition https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/about-canada-health-and-illness-3rd-edition
The Politics of Health in the Canadian Welfare State https://canadianscholars.ca/book/the-politics-of-health-in-the-canadian-welfare-state/
Call for Articles: Special Issue in Methods in Psychology Special Issue Title: Ethical Issues in Qualitative Research https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/315575/ethical-issues-in-qualitative-research Special Issue Editors: Siobhán Healy-Cullen ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) Kerry Chamberlain ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) Deadline for manuscript submission: 31 July, 2025 NOTE: Methods in Psychology is an Open Access publication, but Article Processing Charges will be waived for all articles accepted for this Special Issue. Further, we welcome articles from any discipline, not just psychology, that have implications for ethical issues and practice for qualitative research.
A good for you way to move towards a world. [PDF] Canadian Credit Unions and the Prospects for a Post-Capitalist Economy<https://scholar.google.com/scholar_url?url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dennis-Raphael/publication/385097658_Canadian_Credit_Unions_and_the_Prospects_for_a_Post-Capitalist_Economy/links/6716ed2c68ac304149aa34d5/Canadian-Credit-Unions-and-the-Prospects-for-a-Post-Capitalist-Economy.pdf&hl=en&sa=X&d=9746862098099045989&ei=9lobZ_-QJMqo6rQP7ui4kQw&scisig=AFWwaeY-PmvaSzv71AJZ_6FecvTq&oi=scholaralrt&hist=amlWTvUAAAAJ:15010826756499451489:AFWwaeaT0vzDHfAFw_zB-yPksMDt&html=&pos=0&folt=kw-top> E Flanagan, D Raphael The growing polycrisis in Canada and elsewhere associated with deteriorating living and working conditions have increased calls for a post-capitalist socialist economy. Among the means of accomplishing this goal is the late Erik Olin Wright’s argument … [Save]<https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&update_op=email_library_add&info=ZYbp52_PQ4cJ&citsig=ADIE8skAAAAAaPyOdoxc040GPWbcdw_EUPeY5U0> [Twitter] <https://scholar.google.com/scholar_share?hl=en&oi=scholaralrt&ss=tw&url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dennis-Raphael/publication/385097658_Canadian_Credit_Unions_and_the_Prospects_for_a_Post-Capitalist_Economy/links/6716ed2c68ac304149aa34d5/Canadian-Credit-Unions-and-the-Prospects-for-a-Post-Capitalist-Economy.pdf&rt=Canadian+Credit+Unions+and+the+Prospects+for+a+Post-Capitalist+Economy&scisig=AFWwaeZOFX60eSjyhppKi7Z1dHY2> [LinkedIn] <https://scholar.google.com/scholar_share?hl=en&oi=scholaralrt&ss=in&url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dennis-Raphael/publication/385097658_Canadian_Credit_Unions_and_the_Prospects_for_a_Post-Capitalist_Economy/links/6716ed2c68ac304149aa34d5/Canadian-Credit-Unions-and-the-Prospects-for-a-Post-Capitalist-Economy.pdf&rt=Canadian+Credit+Unions+and+the+Prospects+for+a+Post-Capitalist+Economy&scisig=AFWwaeZOFX60eSjyhppKi7Z1dHY2> [Facebook] <https://scholar.google.com/scholar_share?hl=en&oi=scholaralrt&ss=fb&url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dennis-Raphael/publication/385097658_Canadian_Credit_Unions_and_the_Prospects_for_a_Post-Capitalist_Economy/links/6716ed2c68ac304149aa34d5/Canadian-Credit-Unions-and-the-Prospects-for-a-Post-Capitalist-Economy.pdf&rt=Canadian+Credit+Unions+and+the+Prospects+for+a+Post-Capitalist+Economy&scisig=AFWwaeZOFX60eSjyhppKi7Z1dHY2>
In Nova Scotia the Co-Op council tried to organize patient owned primary care cooperatives as a way to empower citizens and avoid the health care rationing that afflicts people today. The government of the day preferred to maintain their monopoly and today in NS government is contracting out and supporting or at least accepting patient pay concierge clinics.
'The American people are angry and want change': Bernie Sanders slams Democrats for loss https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/11/06/bernie-sanders-election-statement/76101511007/ Is Canada next? https://x.com/BernieSanders/status/1854271157135941698 [Image] [Image] Dennis Raphael
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Does this mean that Bernie Sanders believes the American electorate made a rational choice because voters believed the new government will produce better policies for less affluent Americans compared to the existing or potential Democrat government?
If so, is there any evidence at all to support his thesis that the change they voted for will bring health care for all or an increase in purchasing power for less affluent Americans?
the leftist position is that people's positions, even if horrific, have roots in their material reality. the liberal position as best i can tell is that 20-30% of the country has an irredeemably evil soul. i guess im going with the one you could actually do something about.
Perhaps I'm a Pollyanna, 20% seems like a huge exaggeration of the number of evil people.
Voters hope and predict that the people they elect will make life better. The Democrats were faced with a gridlocked government. I hope the voters belief that this new government will improve their lives is correct, it would be a pleasant surprise.
We see the same thing in elections in Canada. In Alberta, as my article below from Alberta Views suggests, the NDP blew a perfectly good opportunity to win last year's provincial election against a government that had actively increased the cost of living. While the Alberta NDP, unlike Kamala Harris, did promise some concrete improvements in healthcare, mostly they focused on what a piece of shit our right-wing premier was as a person. As with Trump, that did work with people who are middle class and who follow politics closely. But, for working-class people who are struggling with rent, electricity
[cid:0fe0f9f3-9439-4e52-af9b-07a019f165ed] Dennis Raphael
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Of interest:
About Canada: Health and Illness, 3rd edition https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/about-canada-health-and-illness-3rd-edition
Free access to this article <https://academic.oup.com/heapro/article/39/5/daae122/7775543?guestAccessKey=4537f53b-7086-4c1b-a3a2-0664473aa248&utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=heapro&utm_medium=email>. Enjoy :-) Canan
