Not to mention that of all people, Minister Aglukkaq should know how irrelevant the food guide is in the North, taking *just* income vs. price point into account. Then add in cultural, accessibility, etc. I despair of ever seeing a national government, maybe never a provincial one, truly recognize and usefully respond to the elephant in the room...Income and Outcome...
trish
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From: Elizabeth McGibbon <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:55:19
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Oh my. Please, not the food guide again. With all due respect for Minister Aglukkaq's efforts, one only needs to cross reference the prices of fresh food with average family incomes across Canada to see the persistent mathematical foolishness of this food guide rhetoric. As for the 'significant new recreational facilities', how about some publicly funded bus passes and swim hats and goggles...childcare expenses? The dots between poverty and unfair lack of access to 'new recreational facilities' are easy to connect. The will to connect them is not so easy to come by.
And how about the gleeful claim that "Cardiovascular disease is largely preventable through healthy behaviours". Health outcomes related to colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, and neo-conservative public policy in Canada must not be trivialized by suggestions that 'healthy behaviours' will be the cure. Although behaviour surely impacts health, health outcome approaches that address the intergenerational impacts of oppression and the political economy of health are the ones that are urgently needed in Canada.
Elizabeth McGibbon
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its pretty bad!!
"The message is clear: by exercising regularly, making healthy food choices and avoiding smoking and alcohol abuse, Canadians can reduce their risk of heart disease and stroke," said the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health. "Our Government is helping families make healthy heart choices through the Canada Food Guide; the children's fitness tax credit; significant new recreational facilities across the country proposed as part of our Economic Action Plan; and our tough, new legislation to ban flavoured tobacco products aimed at young people."
Dennis Raphael, PhD
Professor of Health Policy and Management
York University
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Room 418, HNES Building
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
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Of interest:
*NEW* Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, 2nd edition, edited by Dennis Raphael
Forewords by Carolyn Bennett and Roy Romanow
<http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael> 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/5l6yh9> 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/2hg2df> http://tinyurl.com/2zqrox
See a lecture! The Politics of Population Health
<http://tinyurl.com/2zqrox> 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://msl.stream.yorku.ca/mediasite/viewer/?peid=ac604170-9ccc-4268-a1af-9a9e04b28e1d> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4129139685624192201&hl=en
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I saw this information in my local paper in Kingston this morning... and was sad (but not surprised) to see how much attention this media release was getting versus the silence that was received when the Report on The State of Public Health in Canada was released last fall. Another depressing example of how backwards things are!
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/media/nr-rp/2009/2009_0609-eng.php <http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/media/nr-rp/2009/2009_0609-eng.php>
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1607745 <http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1607745>
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/06/10/9757016-sun.html <http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/06/10/9757016-sun.html>
http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/CanadaWorld/2009/06/11/9758376-sun.html <http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/CanadaWorld/2009/06/11/9758376-sun.html>
Tanya Beattie, BScH
Public Health Promoter
KFL&A Public Health
221 Portsmouth Avenue
Kingston, Ontario K7M 1V5
613-549-1232, ext. 1293
Fax: 613-549-7896
www.kflapublichealth.ca
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