The SDOH list serv may also be interested in the futurist interim report of the Australian National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission that completely ignored the issues promoted by this listserv, Marmot, Wilkinson and others that health status is inextricably linked to the distribution of incomes in society. Interestingly the reviews last week of Wilkinson and Pickett's "The Spirit Level" flag the fact that the greatest national income gaps are in the US, UK and Portugal. What they don't mention is that Australia is next! It's been left up to groups like Children's Hospitals Australasia to critique the absence of this perspective and its implications for Australia in the report.
http://www.nhhrc.org.au/internet/nhhrc/publishing.nsf/Content/interim-report-december-2008
Graham
Professor Graham Vimpani AM
Clinical Chair
Kaleidoscope in Greater Newcastle
Hunter Children's Health Network
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Hunter Region Mail Centre
NSW. 2310
Australia
Head of the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health
University of Newcastle
Phone +612 4921 3673
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>>> Maija Kagis <[log in to unmask]> 03/21/09 12:42 AM >>>
And Dennis, you were right to be annoyed: I think we should all be very
annoyed, and perhaps ask that the analysis be expanded. This is so much the
same old same old.
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From: Social Determinants of Health [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Dennis Raphael
Sent: 20 March 2009 09:27
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Subject: Re: [SDOH] CPHA response to WHO SDOH report
You are exactly right. It implies that SDOH is primarily about abject
poverty and/or very marginalized groups such as Aboriginal Canadians. It
gives no impression that SDOH involve a much wider spectrum of disadvantaged
people in particular and actually the wide range of the population in
general. Its plays to misguided perceptions and prejudices as to what the
SDOH problems are. It does not move our analysis any further. Contrast
this with the images provides in Social Determinants of Health: The Solid
Facts and you can see why I was annoyed!
dennis
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
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http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael
Of interest:
*NEW* 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-9a
9e04b28e1d
Also, presentation on Politics and Health at the Centre for Health
Disparities in Cleveland Ohio
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4129139685624192201
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4129139685624192201&hl=en> &hl=en
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