good on you dennis happy holidays

On 12/26/09, Dennis Raphael <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Editor:
>
> In response to your Dec. 26 editorial "Why Canadians should feel proud,"
> let me suggest the alternative. As compared to other wealthy nations of
> the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, we rank 24th
> of 30 in infant mortality, 18th of 26 in child death by injury, 21st of 28
> in teenagers giving birth, 21st of 30 in poverty rates for families with
> children, 29th of 30 for spending on early childhood education and care,
> and dead last for reaching early childhood education and care benchmarks.
> Finally, the OECD recognizes Canada as one of the two nations showest the
> greatest increases in poverty and inequality over the past ten years.
> Happy New Year!
>
> 416-465-7455.
>
>
> Dennis Raphael, PhD
> Professor of Health Policy and Management
> York University
> 4700 Keele Street
> Room 418, HNES Building
> Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
> 416-736-2100, ext. 22134
> email: [log in to unmask]
> http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael
>
> Of interest:
>
> * NEW * Health Promotion and Quality of Life in Canada: Essential
> Readings, edited by Dennis Raphael
> http://tinyurl.com/ycb4rm5
>
> Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, 2nd edition, edited
> by Dennis Raphael
> Forewords by Carolyn Bennett and Roy Romanow
> http://tinyurl.com/5l6yh9
>
> 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
>
> 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://www.case.edu/med/ccrhd/education
>
>
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