http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1202030--canada-lags-on-fighting-child-poverty-report-finds?bn=1 Canada falls below most of its international peers when it comes to fighting child poverty, says a new report by the United Nations Children?s Fund being released Tuesday. With a child poverty rate of 13.3 per cent, Canada ranks 24th out of 35 industrialized nations, behind the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and most of northern Europe, says the UNICEF report. http://jasper.yorku.ca/QuickPlace/draphael/Main.nsf/h_Library/BCA5DEFF8509C1C8852577FF0073F0A2/?OpenDocument -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get a free copy of Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts at http://thecanadianfacts.org See what Jack Layton had to say about my books! http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/04/10/cv-election-ndp-layton-platform.html at 27:20 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 email: [log in to unmask] http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael Of interest: * New * Poverty in Canada, 2nd edition, Forewords by Rob Ranier and Jack Layton http://www.cspi.org/books/poverty_canada About Canada: Health and Illness http://tinyurl.com/2c2tm6l Health Promotion and Quality of Life in Canada: Essential Readings http://tinyurl.com/3C8zteu Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, 2nd edition, Forewords by Carolyn Bennett and Roy Romanow http://tinyurl.com/3fkbr8u Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care, 2nd edition Foreword by Gary Teeple http://tinyurl.com/4xlu4up See a lecture! The Politics of Population Health. http://msl.stream.yorku.ca/mediasite/viewer/?peid=ac604170-9ccc-4268-a1af-9a9e04b28e1d Also, presentation at the University of Toronto on how Canada stacks up again other nations in providing citizens with economic and social security. http://vimeo.com/33346501 To manage subscriptions/passwords, or view archives, go to http://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/click4hp.html . [log in to unmask] is run in collaboration with Health Nexus: http://www.healthnexus.ca/index_eng.php
