Thank you for this about Cananda - our situation in Australia is very similar and a proximate (possible) change of government next month will not necessarily herald much difference.
I feel obliged to make what many will see as a left-of -field comment:
such alarming revelations of social stratification should have reverbations in the gender debate. I can't seem to raise any serious interest in the readers of these emails of the need for a critical view of received wisdom in this matter. As long as we contend that gender as a social determinant of health is uniquely to do with power differentials between men and women (the majority of the "gender" articles we were offered on this website were of this view and all passed without a comment that this is a one-sided view of gender), the injustices of the growing gap between rich and poor will be defused. Race (as we see too well in Australia) and class are important determinants of health. Issues such as low paid jobs, hard back-breaking jobs, job insecurity, separation from children, male-specific cancers etc will all be (and sadly are by "researchers" and policy makers) attributed in large part to "patriarchy" or "hegemonic masculinty".
The social determinants of health perspective should free us from such narrow views of gender and while helping us face the contradictions in our own socialisation (whether men and women), provide us with a common platform to raise our voices against the prosperity gap.
John Macdonald UWS
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From: Social Determinants of Health on behalf of Dennis Raphael
Sent: Sat 10/20/2007 8:49 PM
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Subject: [SDOH] THE PROSPERITY GAP- Why poverty threatens us all
THE PROSPERITY GAP
Why poverty threatens us all
The gap between rich in poor in this country has reached Third World levels. Will it take widespread unrest to convince people they have a stake in this?
Oct 20, 2007, David Olive, Toronto Star
According to the latest statistics from the World Bank, the widening gap between rich and poor in Canada is now roughly on par with that of Indonesia. Indeed, in the matter of income equality, Canada trails not only the Scandinavian countries, but Egypt and Pakistan, as well....
http://www.thestar.com/columnists/article/268662
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Of related interest:
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
Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, edited by Dennis Raphael
Foreword by Roy Romanow
http://tinyurl.com/yptzae
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
Dennis Raphael, PhD
Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
School of Health Policy and Management
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
416-736-2100, ext. 22134
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