On the Social Determinants of Health list, moderator Dennis Raphael has
posted a 'revised' version of Dr. Sheela Basrur's press release about the
'Healthy Weights, Healthy Lives' report and the 'obesity epidemic',
framing it as addressing child poverty issues, appropriately on the 15th
anniversary of the Canadian parliamentary motion to 'end child poverty by
the year 2000'.

Find Dennis' version of a press release announcing a OMoH report on
"Increasing Poverty, Increasing Disease, Misery" at the following link on
the SDOH list archive :

http://sundial.ccs.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0411&L=sdoh&D=1&O=D&P=17812

Revised Press Release - Ontario Medical Officer of Health
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Almost 14% of Ontario's children are living in poverty and measures need to
be taken to reduce what has become an material deprivation "epidemic," the
province's chief medical officer said Wednesday.

"I am alarmed to report that almost one out of seven children in Ontario is
poor," Dr. Sheila Basrur said in her annual report, titled Increasing
Poverty, Increasing Disease and Misery. The report also warns that poverty
among children reflects poverty among their families.

Basrur said early deprivation associated with childhood poverty contribute
to increases in adult-onset diabetes and contribute to heart disease,
strokes, hypertension and some cancers.

"Fortunately, this epidemic can be reversed," Basrur said in a release.
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