FYI, Stephen Bezruchka contributed Chapter 1: Epidemiological Approaches to
"Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health Illness and Health Care".

He also grew up in Toronto.
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SEATTLEPOST-INTELLIGENCER

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/275142_focus25.html

Economic equality is best medicine

Health of societies mostly relies on political and economic policies, not
the individual treatment of disease

Sunday, June 25, 2006

By STEPHEN BEZRUCHKA
GUEST COLUMNIST

The headlines read that rich Americans aren't as healthy as poor Brits,
despite our spending twice as much money on health care as they do. Our
newborns die at the highest rates of any rich country, even with our
ever-advancing medical technologies. The feds report our mortality rates
have never been lower. The United Kingdomstudy director suggests it is the
nature of an unequal society in the United Statesthat affects everybody,
while experts over here are puzzled. What is going on?... SNIP

Of interest:

Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care
General Editors, Dennis Raphael, Toba Bryant, Marcia Rioux, Foreword by
Gary Teeple
http://www.cspi.org/books/s/staying.htm

Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives
General Editor, Dennis Raphael, Foreword by Hon. Roy J. Romanow, P.C., O.C,
Q.C.
http://www.cspi.org/books/s/socialdeter.htm

See a lecture!  The Politics of Population Health
http://msl.stream.yorku.ca/mediasite/viewer/?peid=ac604170-9ccc-4268-a1af-9a9e04b28e1d

Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
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
Fax: 416-736-5227
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael

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