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Enrique Cardiel
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"Social determinants of health are life-enhancing resources, such as food supply, housing, economic and social relationships, transportation, education, and health care, whose distribution across populations effectively determines length and quality of life.” - CDC
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From: Social Determinants of Health on behalf of John Courtneidge
Sent: Tue 8/3/2010 1:50 PM
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Subject: [SDOH] Regarding policies to reduce (to elimination) income inequality (Was Re: [SDOH] Research/Study Guidelines)
Dear friends
Regarding policies to reduce (to elimination) income inequality - I can
send, by e-mail attachment, a Reader from the Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives which deals with the five TRIP-Up* economic mechanisms that
create and sustain economic/income inequality.
*TRIP-Up = Theft, Rent, Interest, Profit, Unequal-pay for work
As a taster, and synopsis for parliamentary action, I paste, below, two
aspects from that set of possibilities - for sharing, as led.
Best - for all!
john
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/THE CAMPAIGN FOR CO-OPERATIVE SOCIALISM (III):/
*/Parliament is where potential for change must be tapped.../*
By John Courtneidge
/The CCPA Monitor/, Issue 37, December 2009 / January 2010
/Selected key section:/
In the first two articles of this series, I suggested that the creation
of a new, non-authoritarian, non-capitalist system --- Co-operative
Socialism --- required a seven-point action plan (given here in an
alternative order):
*/Co-operative Commonweal Action Plan/*
/Objectives:/
1. Make capital grants (not loans) to developing countries and communities
2. Maximize human needs provision on a co-operative, free at-
the-point-of-use basis.
3. Introduce guaranteed fair income for all, including a guaranteed
Liveable Citizen's Income, and, in doing so, eliminate personal, income,
and sales taxes.
/Methods:/
4. Reintroduce international exchange controls to end global
exploitation through financial speculation.
5. Abolish money-lending and credit-creation for profit and transform
banking into a public service.
6. Set up not-for-profit Community Co-op Banks, for the predistribution
(not re-distribution) of wealth.
7. Replace coercion with co-operation by converting all workplaces into
appropriate co-operatives.
Economic equality for everyone is the key necessity for personal,
family, social, and international well-being and peace. For up-to-date
evidence that economic inequality is bad for everyone, at all income
levels, and bad for the planet as well, see the book The Spirit Level*by
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, and their on-line videos (at
www.equalitytrust.org.uk <http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/> ) and
Richard's 2009 Salter Lecture audio file at www.bmblog.org
/(*This, key, book was reviewed in the June 2009 issue of The CCPA
Monitor.)/
Profit-seeking and hierarchy have to be abolished if we are to quickly
and sustainably limit human impact on the planet. /(See the Ideas for
Local Action in the full article/./)/
The Seven-Point Co-operative Commonweal Action Plan outlines an initial
general approach, and in the next article in the series I'll tackle a
comprehensive plan of legislation, along with thoughts on how to evolve
the social decision-making process so that the bickering and trench
warfare that we now know as politics is replaced by a social process
that is values and principles-led, rather than personalities-dominated.
For now, since time is short, I'd like to offer two specific suggestions
for parliamentary action in the form of key resolutions, followed by
some ideas for local action/ (these Ideas for Local Action are in the
full article)/.
*/Two Draft Resolutions for Parliamentary Action/*
*/1. DRAFT Interest-free money Resolution for the House of Commons/*
The following resolution could be used to create interest-free,
inflation-proofed, sustainable funding for appropriate housing, public
services, and green infrastructure
:
WHEREAS this House is concerned that the costs of dealing with the
recent credit crunch is only a foretaste of the much larger sums that
will be necessary to cope with climate change, extreme weather
conditions, an ageing population and physical infrastructure, increasing
education and ill-health expenditures, and social discord costs; and
WHEREAS the Government of Canada, instead of raising the needed
additional revenue by raising taxes or borrowing commercial
interest-bearing debt, should now increase the proportion of
publicly-created money in the economy by issuing interest-free credit to
capitalize sustainable public services; and
WHEREAS the use of such publicly-created, interest-free money would
substantially reduce the cost of public investment by eliminating the
need to pay interest;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that this Government instructs the Bank of
Canada to create sufficient interest-free money for deposit as
interest-free credit to the Federal Treasury for allocation by this
House as, from time to time, it shall determine; and that the Bank of
Canada also be instructed to re-mortgage interest-free all Provincial,
Territorial, Township, Municipal, and other public debts.
/For related UK House of Commons activity, see:/
http://www.forumforstablecurrencies.org.uk/index.htm
For two on-line books with free downloads, see: Margrit Kennedy,
Interest and Inflation-free Money:
http://www.twine.com/item/11yl0nmyv-2tg/interest-and-inflation-free-moneymargrit-kennedy
Joseph Huber and James Robertson, Creating New Money:
http://www.jamesrobertson.com/books.htm#creating%20link.htm
*/2) DRAFT Citizen's Income Resolution for the House of Commons/*
/The following resolution could be used to create a "Canadian Citizen's
Income" as a guaranteed, liveable, humane income, payable to all persons
normally resident in Canada./
WHEREAS this House recognizes the adverse effects of economic
inequality, both for all humans and for the whole global commonweal, and
the consequential economic insecurity and ecological damage; and
WHEREAS constructive individual and social action for economic equality
and ecological care require access to economic resources; and
WHEREAS such resources are beyond the reach of the overwhelming majority
of Canadians;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Government of Canada enact two pieces
of legislation:
. Firstly, to immediately create a "Canadian Citizen's Income" as a
guaranteed, liveable, humane income, payable to all persons normally
resident in Canada, and payable at such a level that all Canadians can
be active in their communities for the security and well-being of the
whole of Canada, through the creation of sustainable economic equality,
and so that all Canadians, and thus Canada as a whole, can play their
part in helping create global well-being; and
. Secondly, and concurrently, to immediately establish, and fully fund,
an Annual Conference of a Canadian Federal Citizen's Assembly, randomly
selected from all those normally resident in Canada, to determine the
level of the said "Canadian Citizen's Income" and make relevant annual
recommendations to the Canadian Federal Government for annual
implementation.
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/For a complete CCPA Reader containing this material, contact Jason
Moores at the CCPA Ottawa office 613 563 1341 x312
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e-mail me, John Courtneidge [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> for a free PDF of the Reader./
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On 30/07/2010 1:07 PM, Enrique Cardiel wrote:
> I'm looking for general guidelines on social determinants research. There were very clear guidelines for work on attempts for behavioral change.
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> My main interests are in policy, environmental and health promotion interventions.
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> What I'm looking at for a possible thesis is replicating Bhatvia's minimum wage health impact assessment (http://www.sfphes.org/work_living_wage.htm) and just wonder if there is a collection of guidelines somewhere like there is for service delivery or clinical trials.
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> Sorry if this is still vague, but its something that I'm trying to learn. And to change the work we do here we need to have good data analysis that is local, because people can always claim that something doesn't apply here.
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> Thanks,
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> Enrique Cardiel
> Urban Health Extension Coordinator
> 505-925-7393
> "Social determinants of health are life-enhancing resources, such as food supply, housing, economic and social relationships, transportation, education, and health care, whose distribution across populations effectively determines length and quality of life." - CDC
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