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Enrique Cardiel 
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"Social determinants of health are life-enhancing resources, such as food supply, housing, economic and social relationships, transportation, education, and health care, whose distribution across populations effectively determines length and quality of life.” - CDC




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From: Social Determinants of Health on behalf of John Courtneidge
Sent: Tue 8/3/2010 1:50 PM
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Subject: [SDOH] Regarding policies to reduce (to elimination) income inequality (Was Re: [SDOH] Research/Study Guidelines)
 
Dear friends

Regarding policies to reduce (to elimination) income inequality - I can 
send, by e-mail attachment, a Reader from the Canadian Centre for Policy 
Alternatives which deals with the five TRIP-Up* economic mechanisms that 
create and sustain economic/income inequality.

*TRIP-Up = Theft, Rent, Interest, Profit, Unequal-pay for work

As a taster, and synopsis for parliamentary action, I paste, below, two 
aspects from that set of possibilities - for sharing, as led.

Best - for all!

john

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/THE CAMPAIGN FOR CO-OPERATIVE SOCIALISM (III):/

*/Parliament is where potential for change must be tapped.../*

By John Courtneidge

/The CCPA Monitor/, Issue 37, December 2009 / January 2010

/Selected key section:/

In the first two articles of this series, I suggested that the creation 
of a new, non-authoritarian, non-capitalist system --- Co-operative 
Socialism --- required a seven-point action plan (given here in an 
alternative order):

*/Co-operative Commonweal Action Plan/*

/Objectives:/

1. Make capital grants (not loans) to developing countries and communities

2. Maximize human needs provision on a co-operative, free at- 
the-point-of-use basis.

3. Introduce guaranteed fair income for all, including a guaranteed 
Liveable Citizen's Income, and, in doing so, eliminate personal, income, 
and sales taxes.

/Methods:/

4. Reintroduce international exchange controls to end global 
exploitation through financial speculation.

5. Abolish money-lending and credit-creation for profit and transform 
banking into a public service.

6. Set up not-for-profit Community Co-op Banks, for the predistribution 
(not re-distribution) of wealth.

7. Replace coercion with co-operation by converting all workplaces into 
appropriate co-operatives.

Economic equality for everyone is the key necessity for personal, 
family, social, and international well-being and peace. For up-to-date 
evidence that economic inequality is bad for everyone, at all income 
levels, and bad for the planet as well, see the book The Spirit Level*by 
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, and their on-line videos (at 
www.equalitytrust.org.uk <http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/> ) and 
Richard's 2009 Salter Lecture audio file at www.bmblog.org

/(*This, key, book was reviewed in the June 2009 issue of The CCPA 
Monitor.)/

Profit-seeking and hierarchy have to be abolished if we are to quickly 
and sustainably limit human impact on the planet. /(See the Ideas for 
Local Action in the full article/./)/

The Seven-Point Co-operative Commonweal Action Plan outlines an initial 
general approach, and in the next article in the series I'll tackle a 
comprehensive plan of legislation, along with thoughts on how to evolve 
the social decision-making process so that the bickering and trench 
warfare that we now know as politics is replaced by a social process 
that is values and principles-led, rather than personalities-dominated.

For now, since time is short, I'd like to offer two specific suggestions 
for parliamentary action in the form of key resolutions, followed by 
some ideas for local action/ (these Ideas for Local Action are in the 
full article)/.

*/Two Draft Resolutions for Parliamentary Action/*

*/1. DRAFT Interest-free money Resolution for the House of Commons/*

The following resolution could be used to create interest-free, 
inflation-proofed, sustainable funding for appropriate housing, public 
services, and green infrastructure

:

WHEREAS this House is concerned that the costs of dealing with the 
recent credit crunch is only a foretaste of the much larger sums that 
will be necessary to cope with climate change, extreme weather 
conditions, an ageing population and physical infrastructure, increasing 
education and ill-health expenditures, and social discord costs; and

WHEREAS the Government of Canada, instead of raising the needed 
additional revenue by raising taxes or borrowing commercial 
interest-bearing debt, should now increase the proportion of 
publicly-created money in the economy by issuing interest-free credit to 
capitalize sustainable public services; and

WHEREAS the use of such publicly-created, interest-free money would 
substantially reduce the cost of public investment by eliminating the 
need to pay interest;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that this Government instructs the Bank of 
Canada to create sufficient interest-free money for deposit as 
interest-free credit to the Federal Treasury for allocation by this 
House as, from time to time, it shall determine; and that the Bank of 
Canada also be instructed to re-mortgage interest-free all Provincial, 
Territorial, Township, Municipal, and other public debts.

/For related UK House of Commons activity, see:/

http://www.forumforstablecurrencies.org.uk/index.htm

For two on-line books with free downloads, see: Margrit Kennedy, 
Interest and Inflation-free Money: 
http://www.twine.com/item/11yl0nmyv-2tg/interest-and-inflation-free-moneymargrit-kennedy

Joseph Huber and James Robertson, Creating New Money:

http://www.jamesrobertson.com/books.htm#creating%20link.htm

*/2) DRAFT Citizen's Income Resolution for the House of Commons/*

/The following resolution could be used to create a "Canadian Citizen's 
Income" as a guaranteed, liveable, humane income, payable to all persons 
normally resident in Canada./

WHEREAS this House recognizes the adverse effects of economic 
inequality, both for all humans and for the whole global commonweal, and 
the consequential economic insecurity and ecological damage; and

WHEREAS constructive individual and social action for economic equality 
and ecological care require access to economic resources; and

WHEREAS such resources are beyond the reach of the overwhelming majority 
of Canadians;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Government of Canada enact two pieces 
of legislation:

. Firstly, to immediately create a "Canadian Citizen's Income" as a 
guaranteed, liveable, humane income, payable to all persons normally 
resident in Canada, and payable at such a level that all Canadians can 
be active in their communities for the security and well-being of the 
whole of Canada, through the creation of sustainable economic equality, 
and so that all Canadians, and thus Canada as a whole, can play their 
part in helping create global well-being; and

. Secondly, and concurrently, to immediately establish, and fully fund, 
an Annual Conference of a Canadian Federal Citizen's Assembly, randomly 
selected from all those normally resident in Canada, to determine the 
level of the said "Canadian Citizen's Income" and make relevant annual 
recommendations to the Canadian Federal Government for annual 
implementation.

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/For a complete CCPA Reader containing this material, contact Jason 
Moores at the CCPA Ottawa office 613 563 1341 x312 
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> or 
e-mail me, John Courtneidge [log in to unmask] 
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> for a free PDF of the Reader./


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On 30/07/2010 1:07 PM, Enrique Cardiel wrote:
> I'm looking for general guidelines on social determinants research. There were very clear guidelines for work on attempts for behavioral change.
>
> My main interests are in policy, environmental and health promotion interventions.
>
> What I'm looking at for a possible thesis is replicating Bhatvia's minimum wage health impact assessment (http://www.sfphes.org/work_living_wage.htm) and just wonder if there is a collection of guidelines somewhere like there is for service delivery or clinical trials.
>
> Sorry if this is still vague, but its something that I'm trying to learn. And to change the work we do here we need to have good data analysis that is local, because people can always claim that something doesn't apply here.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Enrique Cardiel
> Urban Health Extension Coordinator
> 505-925-7393
> "Social determinants of health are life-enhancing resources, such as food supply, housing, economic and social relationships, transportation, education, and health care, whose distribution across populations effectively determines length and quality of life." - CDC
>
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