Colleagues:
My work on health promotion, inequalities, and health have led me to
explore ways of thinking about policy that you won't usually find in the
National Post or Globe and Mail (that's The New York Times and Washington
Post south of the border).
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is a wonderful source of ideas
and publications. It recently published a monograph by Monica Townsend on
"Health and Wealth" and just released a book by Jim Stanford entitled
"Paper Boom" that describes how the real economy is not growing while the
paper one is. It also published an "Alternative Budget" each year at the
same time the Feds do so in Ottawa.
Visit their www site at: www.policyalternatives.ca
for more info, membership forms, and publications.
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Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Director,
Masters of Health Science Program in Health Promotion
Department of Public Health Sciences
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