An End-of-Year Greeting:

Even the so-called "progressive media" at the Toronto Star and Globe have
been useless in picking up on the issue of how societal economic inequality
kills social cohesion and leads to what is called "societal disintegration."

The Growing Gap Report from the Toronto-based Centre for Social Justice, and
its fact sheets also completely miss the point as well.   While it is beyond
the scope of this e-mail to communicate all of this, interested parties can
try:

http://bmj.com

The British Medical Journal which is totally on line.  Once there use the
search term "inequality."

Also check out "Rachel's Environmental Newsletter" on the internet. Search on
"Inequality and Health".

Finally, Richard Wilkinson's "Unhealthy societies: the Afflictions of
Inequality", Routledge, 1994 can be obtained at http://amazon.com

And if you can wait until the next issue of the Canadian Journal of Public
Health (Nov/Dec 1998) "Public Health Responses to Economic Inequality" by
yours truly.

All for now,

Dennis Raphael

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Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Associate Director,
Masters of Health Science Program in Health Promotion
Department of Public Health Sciences
Graduate Department of Community Health
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