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Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives
General editor, Dennis Raphael

New Book -- Available July 29, 2004

Uniting top academics and high profile experts from across the country,
this contributed volume is the first of its kind published in Canada. It
summarizes how socio-economic factors affect the health of Canadians,
surveys the current state of eleven social determinants of health across
Canada, and provides an analysis of how these determinants affect
Canadians' health. In each case, the book explores what policy options
would contribute to better health outcomes, and how to ensure that these
options are pursued.

Eleven critical areas are investigated: Aboriginal status, early life,
education, employment and working conditions, food security, health care
services, housing, income and its distribution, social safety net, social
exclusion, as well as unemployment and employment security. Gender, and how
its meaning is constructed within Canadian society, is another important
social determinant of health. All contributors systematically consider how
it impacts upon and interacts with their specific social determinant of
health to influence health.

Contributors:

Pat Armstrong   Andrew Jackson   Irving Rootman   François Aubry   Muriel
Kearney  Chandrakant P. Shah  Nathalie Auger   Ronald Labonte    Michael
Shapcott   Gina B. Browne     David Langille   Valerie Tarasuk   Toba
Bryant   Richard Lessard   Luc Thériault
Tracey Burns   Lynn McIntyre   Emile Tompa   Robert Choinière   Michael
Polanyi   Diane-Gabrielle  Tremblay   Ann Curry-Stevens    Michael
Rachlis   Louise Tremblay   Janice Foley   Dennis Raphael       Charles
Ungerleider   Martha Friendly   Marie-France Raynault   Yves
Vaillancourt   Grace-Edward Galabuzi   Barbara Ronson

This volume will serve as an important text for students and also a good
solid resource for teachers and researchers. The major strengths of this
book lie in its breadth of social determinants of health. Most academic
works do not focus on such a wide range and if they do, they do not include
much current research information. [The book] definitely presents the
material in an original way as it is based on up-to-date, new research in
the areas."   Catherine Chiappetta-Swanson, McMaster University

August 2004  1-55130-237-3 pb 400 pp  C$45.95 US$37.95

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