Dear CLICK4HP-reader

concerning the issue homelessness and addictions I think it is worthwhile to
read the APHA-article "Social Issues as Public Health: Promise and Peril"
(see attachment) from August last year.

Klaus


Klaus D. Pluemer (Social Economist)
Academy for Public Health Duesseldorf
Health Promotion and Management
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Datta, Sheila" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: Question regarding homelessness and addictions


> Hey Kent,
> Here is a taste of some of the commentary from Dennis.  He is a
> professor of health policy at York University.  He is considered
> eccentric in public health (mainly because he doesn't think public
> health should exist).  What are you thoughts on the commentary below?
> I'll send you others as they come...its pretty good reading.  I have to
> admit that often gets me thinking about some of the things we do in
> public health.
>
> Luv you budgie.  Can we do weight training tonight?
>
> Sheila Datta, RN., B.Sc.N.
> Public Health Nurse
> Tobacco Use/Subtance Abuse Prevention
> Region of Peel Health Department
> 44 Peel Centre Drive, Suite 102
> Brampton, ON L6T 4B5
> (905) 791-7800 ext. 2694
> Fax: (905) 793-0764
> email: [log in to unmask]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Raphael [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: September 13, 2003 9:06 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Question regarding homelessness and addictions
>
> My earlier comment about homeless and psychistric disorder refers to the
> fact that by the time a person -- usually through no fault of their own
> --
> has lost everything in the world and has become homeless -- and even
> that
> requires quite an uncaring and unsympathetic society and policy makers
> --
> they should rightly be upset, unhappy and distraught.  It is very easy
> for
> a mental helath worker to focus on these characteristics and ascribe  or
> provide a psychiatric diagnosis.  This could be anxiety disorder,
> depression, paranoid personality -- take your pick.  The diagnosis is
> then
> ascribed as the cause of the person's homelessness rather than the
> result
> of the structural forces that create homelessness in the first place.
>
> The cure for homelessness is housing, not more mental health workers,
> though by this time, they probably could help integrate people into
> their
> new and available housing -- if there was available housing!
>
> dennis
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