It would be wonderful if people working in health began to
raise issues such as the ones you have identified.

Sadly, reporters -- like many others -- seem incapable of
understanding health in any terms beyond smoking, alcohol,
activity, diet, and sex!

Let us all begin the education process by constantly calling
them on their lack of coverage.  A good beginning is directing
them to www.who.dk/healthy-cities where the publications
section contains the media developed booklet "Social
Determinants of Health."  Maybe you will have some more
success than I have had. Perhaps download the pdf file and
print or e-mail it to your local reporters, politicians, and
baords of health.

Dennis Raphael


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