Hello to SDOH list -

*CHNET-Works! and Mark Pajot, Peel Health Unit are pleased to announce a 
Fireside Chat re: **WHY ADAPT? A critical analysis of climate change 
adaptation options for public health in Canada
*More info below my signature.

Fireside Chats are FREE pan-Canadian discussions re: pressing/current 
community health issues - via simultaneous telephone/internet 
conferences - for professionals in community health.
*For more information and to register: *www.chnet-works.ca

We hope you can join us - AND help get the word out.
Dot Bonnenfant, CHNET-Works! Animateur
University of Ottawa, Community Health Research Unit
[log in to unmask] www.chnet-works.ca

*CHNET-Works! and Mark Pajot, Peel Health Unit are pleased to announce a 
Fireside Chat:**
WHY ADAPT? A critical analysis of climate change adaptation options for 
public health in Canada
**For more information and to register: *www.chnet-works.ca

* Friday, 27 March 2009, 01:00 PM — 02:30 PM (Eastern Time)*
The impacts of climate change in Canadian communities, as elsewhere, 
pose new and growing challenges not only because of unmitigated global 
warming but also due to the failure of governments at every level in 
Canada to address the root causes of poverty. People with low 
socio-economic status, and racial minorities bear a disproportionate 
burden of environmentally-related ill-health on both local and global 
scales (Health Canada 2003; Howze 2004; Spengler 2002). Therefore, 
addressing the underlying factors that cause vulnerability should be a 
primary feature of adaptation policy. But it's not. Work on adaptation 
so far has focused on responding to the physical impacts of climate 
change, rather than sufficiently addressing the underlying factors that 
cause vulnerability to it.

Using a critical analysis of adaptation through Foucault's theory of 
governmentality, this presentation will attempt to demonstrate how 
adaptation has been driven more by a governmental rationality tied to 
the ability of governments to promote aspects of laissez-faire 
capitalism (Litfin, 2000), than on protecting those most vulnerable to 
impacts. The future course of adaptation policy in public health, hence, 
will require a monumental paradigm shift by adequately addressing the 
underlying causes of vulnerability through a community development 
process based in the principles of health promotion - enabling people to 
increase control over, and to improve, their health through healthy 
public policies, supportive environments, and community actions. (WHO, 1986)

*Advisor on Tap:*
Mark Pajot, Research and Policy Analyst
Environmental Health Division
Peel Public Health

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