Dennis: well done! harvey


On Mon, 29 Dec 1997 11:44:36 -0500 d.raphael wrote:

> From: d.raphael <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 11:44:36 -0500
> Subject: This time they published it!
> To: CLICK4HP <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
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> In the Globe and Mail, December 29, 1997.
>
> Letter to the Editor:
>
> Lest Globe readers believe that it is only the less
well-off that suffer from
> the effects of inequality (Gap grows between rich, poor,
Dec. 23) an
> impressive body of public health research indicates that
the well-off show
> detrimental health effects as well.
>    Policies that transfer resources from the less well-off
to the wealthy,
> such as we are now seeing in Canada, are associated with
decreasing social
> cohesion and increased societal malaise.
>    This malaise can take many forms including increased
death and illness
> rates, violence, and as is already evident in the case of
Metropolitan
> Toronto, greater use of food banks and shelters for the
homeless.
>    In the end, all members of a society, both the
disadvantaged and the
> well-off, experience these effects through a process of
what social
> epidemiologists call "the symptoms of disintegration."  In
fact, after 20
> years of increasing inequality in Britain, the best
well-off in Britain now
> show poorer health than the least well-off in Sweden.
>    While the well-off in Rosedale and other such
communities may reap the
> economic benefit of increased investments, they begin to
become subject to
> the same threats to health -- deteriorating health care
and school systems,
> crime in the streets, unsafe traffic --  as do the rest of
Canadians.
>
> Dennis Raphael
> Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences
> University of Toronto
>
>
>
>
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> Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor and Acting Director,
> Masters of Health Science Program in Health Promotion
> Department of Public Health Sciences
> Graduate Department of Community Health
> University of Toronto
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