hi dennis et al.

seems to me your question about canadian society penetrates into at least three elements that importantly determine the habitat/niche we live in- and therefore our health.

1) how do we (as human collectives) make our living in a particular time and place

2) how do we share the fruits of our work

3) how do we deal with change in 1 or 2 above?

seems like rural canada is having to address all three issues in a profound way.

ken




-----Original Message-----
From: Social Determinants of Health on behalf of Dennis Raphael
Sent: Tue 9/19/2006 10:23 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [SDOH] GOOD!! New report on the health of rural Canadians
 
Income is usually the best predictor of outcome and there are MANY 
outcomes, overall health, life expectancy, and a whole slew of disaeases.

I highly recommend the report.  It is thorough, thoughtful, and detailed. 
Its analyses of risk -- including independent contributions of income, 
education, employment are particularly useful and should serve as a model 
for USA analyses, for example.  Of course the question is still begged 
what is it about Canadian society that leads to so many people are of low 
income and once they are low income, why does the nature of distribution 
of resources lad to poor health!.


"As this report has shown, rural residents in Canada are more likely to be 
in poorer socioeconomic
conditions, to have lower educational attainment, to be involved in 
economic
activities with higher health risks (for example, farming, fishing, mining 
and logging)
and to exhibit less desirable health behaviours. These factors may be 
compounded by less
access to prevention, early detection, treatment or support services to 
make good health
status even more difficult to achieve in rural or remote areas."

dr

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