Samuel Johnson stated it well over 200 years ago: "Where a great proportion
of the people are suffered to languish in helpless misery, that country
must be ill-policed and wretchedly governed: a decent provision for the
poor is the true test of civilization."

Geoffrey Rose pointed out in the Strategy of Preventive Medicine: "The
primary determinants of disease are mainly economic and social, and
therefore its remedies must also be economic and social.  Medicine and
politics cannot and should not be kept apart."

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   Canalising a river
   Grafting a fruit tree
   Educating a person
   Transforming a state
   These are instances of fruitful criticism
   And at the same time instances of art.
       -Bertolt Brecht
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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
University of Toronto
McMurrich Building, Room 101
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA M5S 1A8
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