shame. Have these guys never heard of the Ottawa Charter?!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Social Determinants of Health [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of
> Dennis Raphael
> Sent: 15 September 2004 10:49
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [SDOH] Latest in "Advanced" Canadian thinking on "health
> promotion."
>
>
> This article from the Toronto Star illustrates the profound
> political and
> attitudinal barriers facing those raising the issues of
> broader societal
> determinants of health.  Graham Fraser is a national reporter
> for the Star
> and can be reached at [log in to unmask]
> Concerning the premiers, it is as if the last 30 years of
> health research
> and Health Canada and Canadian Public Health Association statements on
> broader determinants of health did not exist! HELP!!!
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> http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thesta
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>
>  Premiers endorse lifestyle programs
>
> GRAHAM FRASER
> OTTAWA BUREAU
>
> OTTAWA—Premiers seized on health promotion and public health
> strategies as
> things they could agree with the federal government about, and
> congratulated Ottawa for its support for programs to reduce
> smoking and
> encourage healthy lifestyle habits.
>
> One after another, the premiers endorsed action yesterday to
> combat chronic
> illness through reducing tobacco use, fighting obesity and encouraging
> physical activity, which Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm
> identified as the
> three risk factors for chronic illness.
>
> Hamm, who is a doctor, called on the federal government to keep up its
> funding for health promotion, some of which is scheduled to
> expire next
> year.
>
> He said that, thanks to federal support, Nova Scotia had
> managed to reduce
> tobacco use from the highest level in the country to the
> national average
> in three years.
>
> Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty warned that the country faces
> the prospect
> of a dramatic increase in diabetes, as a result of
> insufficient physical
> activity and poor eating habits among Canadians.
>
> He said that a recent study shows that if current trends
> continue, a third
> of children born after 2000 will suffer from diabetes.
>
> "Of those, one half will suffer renal failure, one third will
> suffer heart
> attacks and one third will have a stroke," he said.
>
> "All because of insufficient physical activity and poor eating."
>
> As a result, he said, Ontario is banning the sale of junk
> food in schools
> and making physical education mandatory.
>
> New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord said that there was a
> strong consensus
> in the medical community about the need to invest in wellness
> and health
> promotion.
>
> "This is about health outcomes (and) increasing life
> expectancy," he said.
>
> "The secondary benefit is cost savings."
>
> Federal Minister of State Carolyn Bennett, a family doctor,
> said later that
> all of the premiers have recognized the importance of public health.
>
> "I think SARS scared everybody, but so have the other
> epidemics of cancer,
> heart disease and diabetes," she said in an interview.
>
> "Everybody knows we've got to turn this around, and it is the key to
> sustainability," because a healthier population can lead to a
> reduction in
> over-all health-care costs.
>
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