Health Promotion and Quality of Life in Canada: Essential Readings, edited 
by Dennis Raphael

http://tinyurl.com/ycb4rm5

Preface 

Introduction

Chapter 1: Setting the Stage: Why Quality of Life? Why Health Promotion? 
Dennis Raphael

Part I: Individual Perspectives

Chapter 2: Quality of Life Indicators and Health 
Dennis Raphael, Rebecca Renwick, Ivan Brown, and Irving Rootman

Chapter 3: Quality of Life: What are the Implications for Health 
Promotion? 
Dennis Raphael, Ivan Brown, Rebecca Renwick, and Irving Rootman

Chapter 4: The Quality of Life Profile?Adolescent Version 
Dennis Raphael, Ellen Rukholm, Ivan Brown, Pat Hill-Bailey, and Emily 
Donato

Chapter 5: Measuring the Quality of Life of Older Persons 
Dennis Raphael, Ivan Brown, Rebecca Renwick, Maureen Cava, Nancy Weir, and 
Kit Heathcote

Part II: Community and Policy Perspectives 

Chapter 6: Making the Links between Community Structure and Individual 
Well-being 
Dennis Raphael, Rebecca Renwick, Ivan Brown, Brenda Steinmetz, Hersh 
Sehdev, and Sherry Phillips

Chapter 7: Community Quality of Life in Low-income Neighbourhoods 
Dennis Raphael, Rebecca Renwick, Ivan Brown, Sherry Phillips, Hersh 
Sehdev, and Brenda Steinmetz

Chapter 8: What Do Canadian Seniors Say Supports Their Quality of Life? 
Toba Bryant, Ivan Brown, Tara Cogan, Clemence Dallaire Sophie Laforest, 
Patrick McGowan, Dennis Raphael, Lucie Richard, Loraine Thompson, and 
Joyce Young

Chapter 9: The Welfare State as a Determinant of Women?s Health 
Dennis Raphael and Toba Bryant

Part III: The Role of the Social Determinants of Health 

Chapter 10: Bridging the Gap between Research Findings and Public Policy
Dennis Raphael

Chapter 11: Present Status, Unanswered Questions, and Future Directions 
Dennis Raphael

Chapter 12: Maintaining Population Health in a Period of Welfare State 
Decline 
Dennis Raphael and Toba Bryant

Chapter 13: The State?s Role in Promoting Population Health 
Dennis Raphael and Toba Bryant

Part IV: Vulnerable Populations 

Chapter 14: Indigenous Well-being in Four Countries 
Martin Cooke, Francis Mitrou, David Lawrence, Eric Guimond, and Dan Beavon

Chapter 15: The Impact of Race and Immigrant Status on Employment 
Opportunities and Outcomes in Canada 
Cheryl Teelucksingh and Grace-Edward Galabuzi

Chapter 16: Employment and Persons with Disabilities in Canada
Canadian Council on Social Development 

Chapter 17: A Call to Combat Poverty and Exclusion of Canadians with 
Disabilities 
Council of Canadians with Disabilities

Chapter 18: Economic Gender Equality Indicators 2000 
Warren Clark

Part V: Moving Towards Action 

Chapter 19: Barriers to Addressing the Social Determinants of Health 
Dennis Raphael, Ann Curry-Stevens, and Toba Bryant

Chapter 20: Income and Health in Canada 
Dennis Raphael, Ronald Labonte, Ronald Colman, Karen Hayward, Renee 
Torgerson, and Jennifer Macdonald

Chapter 21: Identifying and Strengthening the Structural Roots of Urban 
Health in Canada 
Toba Bryant, Dennis Raphael, and Robb Travers

Chapter 22: Getting Serious about the Social Determinants of Health 
Dennis Raphael

Conclusion

Chapter 23: Can Increasing Concern with Quality of Life Encourage Health 
Promoting Public Policy? 
Dennis Raphael
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Dennis Raphael, PhD
Professor of Health Policy and Management
York University
4700 Keele Street
Room 418, HNES Building
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
416-736-2100, ext. 22134
email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael

Of interest:

* NEW * Health Promotion and Quality of Life in Canada: Essential 
Readings, edited by Dennis Raphael
http://tinyurl.com/ycb4rm5

Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, 2nd edition, edited 
by Dennis Raphael
Forewords by Carolyn Bennett and Roy Romanow
http://tinyurl.com/5l6yh9

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

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://www.case.edu/med/ccrhd/education
 

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