... and the largest laurel of all to Dennis Raphael for his
tirelessness, determination, and gracefulness in spearheading the issues
that matter!  Peace to all.

Wendy Reynolds
Executive Director
AWARE (Action on Women's Addictions - Research & Education)
PO Box 86
Kingston ON K7L 4V6
phone 613/545-0117
fax 613/545-1508


Dennis Raphael wrote:

>The SDOH listserv commenced January 2004 and now, close to a year later, we
>now have 1076 subscribers. Outside of the occasional "out of office
>message," I am happy with how it has worked out and I feel that I have come
>to know very many of you even though we have not met.
>
>On the up side, the social determinants of health appears to have had some
>penetration into public policy discussions and public health documents in
>Canada and elsewhere.
>
>On the down side, actual action on these concepts by policymakers in Canada
>and the public health community -- with a few exceptions  [take a bow
>Waterloo Region and  Sudbury in Ontario, Interior Health in BC and Chinook
>Region in Alberta, Montreal in Quebec -- apologies for omissions, please
>educate me] remains strangely distanced from the implications of addressing
>upstream issues.
>
>LAURELS [Canadian]
>1. Public health units that are raising broader issues
>2. Canadian Minister of Public Health  Carolyn Bennett for expressing
>commitments to addressing the social determinants of health
>3. Canadian Population Health Initiative producing important work
>4. Statistics Canada providing important information on key issues
>5. Health Canada staff supporting communities and researchers in addressing
>broader issues
>6. Judy Gerstel of the Toronto Star for educating her readers
>7. All the NGOS -- especially the United Ways of Canada, Social Planning
>Councils, and the Centre for Social Justice -- for raising issues of
>poverty, marginalization, social justice and equity.
>8. Campaign 2000 and other anti-poverty organizations for slogging along
>despite 15 years of inaction on child poverty
>9. The Caledon Institute, Canadian Policy Research Networks, Federation of
>Canadian Municipalities, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
>for consistently raising these issues
>10.  The National Council of Welfare, Housing activists and the Canadian
>Association of Food Banks for their ongoing analysis and advocacy
>11.  All the academics who realize that publishing an article in Social
>Science and Medicine by itself is not going to change anything if
>policymakers and the public are unaware of its content.
>12.  Cathy Crowe Michael Shapcott, and David Hulchanski and others for
>spearheading action on housing and homelessness issues in Canada
>13. Kim Raine, Valerie Tarasuk and Lynn McIntyre for raising issues of food
>security.
>14. Jim Stanford of the Canadian Auto Workers and Andrew Jackson of the
>Canadian Labour Congress for demonstrating that not all economists are
>evil.
>15. The clergy of many churches in Canada for showing how un-Christian,
>un-Jewish, un-Islamic and un-godlike are societies that tolerate oppression
>and injustice.
>16. All of you for trying.
>17.  And everyone else whom I have neglected.
>
>DARTS and ARROWS [Canadian]
>1.  The Chronic Disease Alliance of Canada and the Federal Healthy Living
>Initiative for reducing risk to healthy eating, tobacco use, and physical
>activity  -- a sin of which which they are not alone.
>2. The Globe and Mail -- and other media -- for consistently ignoring the
>emerging literature on the social determinants of health and force-feeding
>us -- on a daily basis -- the dangers of obesity, transfats, and sloth.
>3. The Ontario government for its stupid.ca website that further
>marginalizes adolescents already at risk due to economic and social
>marginalization
>4. Medical Officers of Health who know about, but do not act to educate the
>puiblic and their staff,  about the social determinants of health,
>5. Politicians who seem intent on managing "Ministries of Health
>Prevention" rather than "Health Promotion"
>
>And.........
>
>Reading the Newspaper While Brewing the Tea
>
>In the early hours I read in the paper of epoch-making projects
>On the part of pope and sovereigns, bankers and oil barons
>With my other eye I watch
>The pot with the water for my tea
>The way it clouds and starts to bubble and clears again
>And overflowing the pot quenches the fire.
>
> Bertolt Brecht, 1942
>
>Finally, please pass this on to someone who is a potential subscriber to
>the list.  Every message provides information about subscribing.
>
>Happy New Year!
>
>Dennis Raphael, PhD
>Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
>School of Health Policy and Management
>Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies
>York University
>4700 Keele Street
>Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
>email: [log in to unmask]
>website: http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael
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