Dear Sara,
I would suggest any of Paul Farmer's writings/stories about people in poverty as a great source of examples and ideas for items in the survey (which then will not be short :). Please see Farmer's books: Infections and inequalities; Pathologies of power: health human rights and the new war on the poor; or any other.
Best regards,
Bojana
Bojana Beric, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Studies
The Marjorie K. Unterberg School of Nursing & Health Studies
Monmouth University
West Long Branch, New Jersey 07764
Phone: 732-923-4675
Fax: 732-263-5131
& Visiting Professor
University of Novi Sad
Medical Faculty
Hajduk Veljkova 3
21 000 Novi Sad
Republic of Serbia
Europe
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From: Social Determinants of Health on behalf of Sara Farrell
Sent: Fri 7/18/2008 2:09 PM
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Subject: [SDOH] individual poverty assessment tool
This is going to seem like an incredibly inane request but does anyone know of an individual quiz or assessment tool that people coming to a forum on poverty and health would do that would increase their understanding of what it means to be poor?
Something that would highlight social exclusion, and the day to day realities of living in poverty.
like for example... My child cannot attend friend's birthday parties because I cannot afford to buy a gift.
I worry what would happen if I became ill...
I don't have any money to get winter boots for my child
I know I could pull out things from the various market basket measures that are used but wondered if anyone had already created something along these lines?
Recently we heard that most Canadians identify themselves as being middle class...even those living at both ends of the spectrum. We thought a tool like the one above requested might give people permission to identify the fact that they are indeed poor (I'm thinking they already know this and don't need a tool to tell them!).
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much,
Sara
Sara Farrell
Community Health Officer-North Region
Toronto Public Health
5100 Yonge Street, 2nd Fl
Toronto, M2N 5V7
416-338-0021
fax 416-338-8550
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