Pharmaceutical assists" for smoking prevention are even more
problematic as an approach now that the FDA has finally, and
appropriately, given black box warnings to these products.  There are
serious health risks associated with their use.   For one news story
about them:
 http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090701/hl_hsn/antismokingdrugsgetfdablackboxwarning

Unfortunately, Health Canada maintains its standard "sit on the fence"
attitude rather than display the kind of pharmacovigilance needed.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Health/Health+Canada+weighs+options+adds+black+warnings/1756296/story.html

Abby Lippman
(McGill)

On 7/3/09, Campbell, Carolynn <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Timing is always interesting to think about.  I think the recession is a
> factor with regards to the homelessness issue.  There is money available for
> ‘infrastructure’ now.  In Ottawa, as I imagine in other cities across the
> country, our social housing programs are getting money for repairs to
> existing housing stock.  This week the local paper reported a grant for
> renovation of an old hotel, the target population being those in our
> shelters.
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> I am hoping Hamilton’s action will get picked up by other city councils &
> public health departments.  The most recent bee in my bonnet has to do with
> smoking cessation programs.  None of the pharmacological assists for
> quitting are funded on the Ontario Drug Benefit card. And all of them are
> more expensive than non-legal tobacco. We recently had a teaching session to
> support our shift from problem based medicine to prevention.  The speaker
> mentioned stress as a key factor for relapse.  Actually he gave a vignette
> of going into a stressful meeting at work, and having forgotten the
> nicorette gum.  I thought, ‘Well if you are going into a stressful meeting,
> at least you have a pay cheque. No one is more stressed than those on social
> assistance who faces many other SDOH related risks besides smoking.  We have
> a lot of lobby work to do.
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> Carolynn Campbell MSW RSW
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> The Ottawa Hospital Academic Family Health Team,
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> 210 Melrose Avenue,
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> Ottawa, ON, Canada
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> K1Y 4K7
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> Tel: 613-798-5555 ext 17670     Fax: 613-761-4200
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> From: Social Determinants of Health [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Sivan Bomze
> Sent: July 2, 2009 19:02
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [SDOH] good news also available here...
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> Just wondering, from the perspective of the SDOH listers, why do you think
> this is happening now??? Why the focus on affordable housing across
> Ontario….why this report from Hamilton???
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> What has changed??? Why suddenly now are these issues seemingly more
> palatable??
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> Is it all to do with the recession?? The hope and assumed promised from the
> Obama presidential election seeping in North of the border???
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> How do we keep this momentum going and make it more encompassing??
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> Sivan Bomze, BSc., DHMS, BHSc.
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> MHSc/MPH Health Promotion (2010)
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> (Women’s Health)
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> (OTC-Health Services and Policy Research)
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> Dalla Lana School of Public Health
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> University of Toronto
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> [log in to unmask]
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> From: Social Determinants of Health [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> Dennis Raphael
> Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 4:39 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [SDOH] good news also available here...
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> http://www.myhamilton.ca/NR/rdonlyres/B9A5AD7E-CB58-4BA3-8F5D-1F5D51A54233/0/Apr27BOH09008SocialDeterminantsofHealthPositionStatement.pdf
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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
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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://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://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4129139685624192201&hl=en
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