More of our tax dollars at work people!
EXCERPT from latest blog post:
"That the quality of life between women and men differs as they age and that women's health
disproportionately deteriorates with age comes as no surprise to the hundreds of researchers
who have been crying the clarion call for decades about the social determinants of health....
"Any SDOH researcher will tell you that i) poverty is associated with poor health and ii) more
women than men are poor. Women's health researchers have provided countless reasons why
the latter is the case....
"It therefore comes as a shock to learn of researchers who, working on behalf of Statistics
Canada, never appear to have heard of the SDOH or, more particularly, the association of poverty
to health and to women...."
Full article: http://tinyurl.com/bq34bl
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