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Two letters in Toronto Globe and Mail
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Dennis Raphael <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 26 Jun 2004 14:10:18 -0400
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Health-care sense

 By IRVING ROOTMAN
professor and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Distinguished
Scholar
 Saturday, Jun 26, 2004

University of Victoria -- I would like to congratulate The Globe and Mail
on an outstanding article by André Picard (Keep People Healthy In The First
Place -- June 24). This is an important reminder to the public and
politicians during this run-up to the election that putting more money into
health care is not going to solve all our health problems in the long term.

We also need to heed the message of the Lalonde Report to address the
causes of ill health through increased efforts in health promotion and
disease prevention.
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 By DENNIS RAPHAEL,
associate professor and undergraduate program director, School of Health
Policy and Management, York University
 Saturday, Jun 26, 2004

Toronto -- Graham Riches (The Five Giants -- letter, June 25) is absolutely
correct to point out that the primary determinants of health are not health
care or even lifestyle choices as much as the provision of an adequate and
humane social safety net associated with the welfare state.

The main question to be answered is why -- considering that Health Canada
has systematically churned out this information in the form of various
reports and documents since 1974 -- have governments, policy-makers and the
media paid so little attention to these messages?

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