Dr.Raphael, do you have a link for the Toronto Star, I would like to see the
article that you referred. Thanks for your updates, they are very helpful.
Anne Llewellyn

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From: d.raphael <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, August 11, 2000 11:06 AM
Subject: The nature of the Press


> In today's Toronto Star (Aug. 11) health report Rita Daly
> carried a report of a presentation at the 69th Annual
> Couchiching Conference by Michael Marmot on ten non-medical
> factors that affect health.
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> She did not mention the name of the report: "Social
> Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts," how it can
> be obtained, nor that it was published by WHO in 1998.
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> She certainly did not mention that I had provided
> her with a copy of it over a year ago and that she and
> others at the Star -- except for columnist Jim Coyle --
> had ignored it.
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> I wrote the following in a letter to the editor
> [this might be a good time to have others in Ontario
>  and Canada ask why the Star has been ignoring this issue!]
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> Letters to the Editor:
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>    I read with interest Health Reporter Rita Daly's
> story in the Star about the ten non-medical factors
> that influence health according to Michael Marmot
> (Causes of Poor Health Probed, August 11).
>    Star readers may wish to know that the very
> important World Health Organization report "Social
> Determinants of Health: The Solid Facts" -- in
> which this information is contained -- has been
> available since 1998 on the net at
> http://www.who.dk/healthy-cities
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> Dennis Raphael
> Public Health Sciences
> University of Toronto
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