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Re: NDP speech on social determinants of health
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Ocean - WISE <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:55:11 -0700
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While that's nice, Layton uses much of this piece for partisan 
promotion; and what continues to trouble me is even with this 
opportunity - to write a foreword on a book titled "Poverty and Policy 
in Canada: IMPLICATIONS FOR HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE" - Layton still 
doesn't connect poverty to health.

In his position, he has a golden opportunity to blaze a new political 
trail. He could change the debate on health, by reframing it from the 
endless talk of sickness care (the medical model) to the promotion of 
wellbeing, the empowerment model.

This is what I find so frustrating with the NDP. With their purported 
values, you'd think they'd already be doing this, but instead they're 
still buying into the old way of thinking. They're saying the same old 
things, using the same arguments they were using 20 years ago. While 
these may be as relevant today as yesterday, that the NDP isn't 
hammering home the connection between the determinants of health and the 
cost of the healthcare (sickness care) system is frustrating as hell.

Ocean

-- 
Chrystal Ocean, Coordinator
Wellbeing through Inclusion Socially & Economically
http://www.wise-bc.org/
250-748-8093

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