What if the "politicis of health" that you are referring? What are "structural changes" that are needed? Does it not include education system and how "education" is delivered?
I think that the issue is not that the education is not important. The problem is when instead looking at solutions "holistically", we think that a particular "partical solution" is the magic bullet. We know the impact of poverty on health and well-being, but what causes poverty?
>>> Dennis Raphael <[log in to unmask]> 06/13/08 5:25 AM >>>
I agree. I was struck by their emphasis on education as well. This
emphasis represents an unwillingness to address the politics of health.
Their responses may have a lot to do with their working with very deprived
communities where education is seen as a means of shifting the group
identity of those experiencing deprivation. But without other structural
changes would do noting about the distribution of resources in general.
dennis
Of related interest:
Poverty and Policy in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life
by Dennis Raphael
Foreword by Jack Layton
http://tinyurl.com/2hg2df
Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care,
edited by Dennis Raphael, Toba Bryant, and Marcia Rioux
Foreword by Gary Teeple
http://tinyurl.com/2zqrox
Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, edited by Dennis
Raphael
Foreword by Roy Romanow
http://tinyurl.com/yptzae
See a lecture! The Politics of Population Health
http://msl.stream.yorku.ca/mediasite/viewer/?peid=ac604170-9ccc-4268-a1af-9a9e04b28e1d
Also, presentation on Politics and Health at the Centre for Health
Disparities in Cleveland Ohio
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4129139685624192201&hl=en
Dennis Raphael, PhD
Professor, School of Health Policy and Management
York University
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Toronto ON M3J 1P3
416-736-2100, ext. 22134
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http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael
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