Dear Dennis. Which are the good things done by the Health Units that you
refered to (Waterloo, Sudbury, Chinook, Peterborough, Ottawa, Interior
Region, Montreal). In what extension they aplly to less developed countries?
I think that this is a good positive starting point.
Maria Inês Azambuja

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From: "Dennis Raphael" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: [SDOH] More on cutting-edge population health promotion in
Ontario


> Thank you Kristi for this.  I frequently feel like screaming!  I suggest
> the following:
>
> 1. Responding quickly and supporting columnists and health reporters who
> go
> against the grain.
> 2. Attempting to communicate with opposition politicians.  However, when
> the conservatives were in power in Ontario, I found willing listeners in
> the opposition Liberals.  Now that the Liberals are in power, they are
> doing the same thing!
> 3. Providing parodies and ridiculing the "health authorities" who know
> what
> they are doing is crass self-advancement.  This is an excellent stress
> reliever!
> 4.  Supporting those health units doing good things and letting the world
> know about it!:  Waterloo, Sudbury, Chinook, Peterborough, Ottawa,
> Interior
> Region, Montreal.
> 5. Sending letters to newspaper editors.
> 6.  Reading the European health policy literatures to remind ourselves
> that
> we are the rational ones and that the lifestyle advocates are not.
> 7. SUPPORTING PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION: the single factor likely to
> lead
> to positive change.
>
> others...?
>
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