http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/6101426.stm
Interesting research reported on the BBC reporting the marked increase
in statin prescribing rates in the UK. While some patients should
receive these, some general practitioners will prescribe statins to
people who would benefit from other strategies, such as those in their
mid-30s with no other risk factors for CHD.
This rise could be attributed to the new contract for GPs which provides
renumeration based on meeting quality indicators, including...statin
prescribing rates. Hence, income-based medicine triumphs over
evidence-based medicine with no social determinants or behavioural
recommendations being acknowledged.
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Dr Alexander M Clark PhD BA(Hons) RN
Assistant Professor & Alberta Heritage Population Health Investigator
4th Floor Clinical Sciences Building
Faculty of Nursing
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB.
Canada
T6G 2G3
Tel: (780) 492 8347
Fax: (780) 492 2551
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From: Social Determinants of Health [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Dennis Raphael
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:16 PM
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Subject: Please circulate: Book Review of Staying Alive
Of interest:
Poverty and Policy in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of
Life
By Dennis Raphael, Foreword by Jack Layton
Forthcoming, March 2007
Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care
General Editors, Dennis Raphael, Toba Bryant, Marcia Rioux, Foreword by
Gary Teeple
http://www.cspi.org/books/s/staying.htm
Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives
General Editor, Dennis Raphael, Foreword by Hon. Roy J. Romanow, P.C.,
O.C., Q.C.
http://www.cspi.org/books/s/socialdeter.htm
See a lecture! The Politics of Population Health
http://msl.stream.yorku.ca/mediasite/viewer/?peid=ac604170-9ccc-4268-a1a
f-9a9e04b28e1d
Dennis Raphael, Ph.D.
Professor and Undergraduate Programme Director
School of Health Policy & Management
Faculty of Health
York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto ON M3J 1P3
Ph: 416-736-2100 ext. 22134
Fax: 416-736-5227
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael
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