forwarded for posting to the CLICK4HP listserv from the moderator of the
Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) listserv.

In addition to the following call to health promoters to respond to the
letter to the editor to the Toronto Star,  please see the article referred
to in this letter, and the SDOH archives at
https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/sdoh.html

`Rogue advocates' for GTA's poor speak out
Nov. 25, 2005. 01:00 AM
KATHY HARDILL, DEBRA PHELPS AND MIMI DIVINSKY
Nurses Kathy Hardill and Debra Phelps, and Dr. Mimi Divinsky are
Toronto-based members of Health Providers Against Poverty.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1132872611012&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795

Your comments and reactions are very welcome!

Alison Stirling
cofacilitator, CLICK4HP listserv

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Ministry of health Promotion and Hunger in Ontario

for that matter, what do health promoters in Ontario have to say?

Forwarded by Dennis Raphael/Atkinson on 11/25/2005 07:17 AM
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Dennis Raphael
11/25/2005 07:08 AM

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Subject:    Ministry of health Promotion and Hunger in Ontario

The government that is cracking down on social assistance recipients and
their health providers who consider hunger and poverty to be a risk
condition for health is the same government that has established a
Ministry of Health Promotion (Rogue advocates' for GTA's poor speak out,
November 25).  What does the new Ministry of Health Promotion have to say
about how limiting access to the Dietary Food  Supplement Allowance
directly threatens the health of poor families? Current Education Minister
Kennedy resigned as Director of the Daily Bread Food Bank in Toronto in
disgust over the previous government's treatment of the poor to run as a
Liberal for the provincial parliament.  I wonder where his concern about
hunger and deprivation in Ontario has gone now that he is in Cabinet.  By
the way, Mr. Kennedy's  previous employment venue -- the Daily Bread Food
Bank -- has endorsed the campaign to extend the Food Supplement Allowance
to all social assistance recipients. Where is Mr. Kennedy's voice now?

   Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
   Associate Professor & Undergraduate Programme Director
   School of Health Policy & Management
   Atkinson Faculty of Liberal & Professional Studies
   York University
   4700 Keele St.
   Toronto ON M3J 1P3
   Ph: 416-736-2100 ext. 22134
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   Website: http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael

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