Poverty and Policy in Canada
Dennis Raphael

This book is unlike any other on the topic. Poverty and Policy in Canada
provides a unique perspective on poverty and its importance to the health
and quality of life of Canadians. This original volume considers a range of
issues that will be of great interest to a variety of audiences.

Throughout the book, particular emphasis has been placed on the lived
experiences of poverty.

“This volume explores social and political forces that conspire to allow
poverty to continue unabated. At the simplest level, poverty’s sheer
invisibility keeps it off the national radar. That’s why Professor
Raphael’s work is so necessary. Poverty and Policy in Canada will
strengthen our struggle to make poverty visible, to thereby make it
politically real, and ultimately to make poverty history.”
—Jack Layton, Leader, New Democratic Party of Canada

Dennis Raphael is Professor and Undergraduate Programme Director at the
School of Health Policy and Management at York University. He serves as a
consultant to the Canadian Public Health Agency and is an advisor to an
upcoming PBS series on social inequalities and health in the USA.

Table of Contents

Part I: Defining and Measuring Poverty in Canada
Chapter 1. Poverty and the Modern Welfare State
Chapter 2. Canadian Perspectives on Poverty
Chapter 3. Who is Poor in Canada?
Chapter 4. Making Sense of Poverty: Social Inequality and Social Exclusion

Part II: The Experience of Poverty
Chapter 5. Pathways to Poverty
Chapter 6. The Lived Experience of Poverty
Chapter 7. Interactions with the Service Sector: Poverty, Social
Assistance, and Health Care

Part III: Poverty, Health, and Quality Of Life
Chapter 8. Poverty and Health
Chapter 9. Poverty and Health: Mechanisms and Pathways
Chapter 10. Poverty and Quality Of Life

Part IV: Public Policy and Poverty
Chapter 11. The Politics of Poverty
Chapter 12. Canadian Poverty and Public Policy in International Perspective
Chapter 13: Poverty and the Future of the Welfare State

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