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Join the new Socialism and Health Listserv at https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=socialism-health&A=1

The Socialism and Health List-serv is intended as an international forum for those concerned with the latest developments in theory, research, and practice regarding the role that our economic system plays in threatening health. For many years, we believed that the structures and processes of social democratic and even conservative welfare states could serve as models for liberal welfare states such as Canada to emulate. Clearly, the quality and equitable distribution of the social determinants of health are superior in these welfare states compared to what is seen in liberal welfare states such as Canada.   Yet, despite these differences, all forms of welfare states are now subject to the insidious effects of neoliberal governance in numerous health-related areas: macro-level distribution of resources, provision of health and social services, and environmental protection, among others.  The last area is of special importance. The climate crisis and the growing inevitability of a climate catastrophe are suggesting that even the environmental policies of so-called eco-social welfare states – which happen to be the social democratic welfare states -- will not be able to assure the survival of a habitable planet.

Yet, while there is general agreement among socialists that capitalism is incapable of dealing with the range of crises we are facing and averting a climate catastrophe, there is rather less agreement as to what a socialist state would actually look like and the means of attaining it. Here we agree with Meiville who stated in A Spectre Haunting (2022) that what is needed is humility, an acceptance that we cannot be sure of what socialism will look like and that on the way towards it we will make mistakes. But we also agree with Meiville that socialism “would give an infinitely greater likelihood of sustaining a habitable world than more of the same system that got us here.”


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Dennis Raphael, PhD
Professor of Health Policy and Management
York University
4700 Keele Street
Strong College, Room 334
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3
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Of interest:

The Politics of Health in the Canadian Welfare State
https://canadianscholars.ca/book/the-politics-of-health-in-the-canadian-welfare-state/
 
Poverty in Canada, 3rd edition,
Forewords by Cathy Crowe, Rob Ranier and Jack Layton
https://canadianscholars.ca/book/poverty-in-canada-d3408482-0caa-489a-8a76-7faf7587d00a/
 
Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care, 3rd edition
Foreword by Gary Teeple
https://canadianscholars.ca/book/staying-alive/
 
Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, 3rd edition
Forewords by Michael Butler and Maude Barlow, Carolyn Bennett and Roy Romanow
https://canadianscholars.ca/book/social-determinants-of-health-3rd-edition/

Immigration, Public Policy, and Health: Newcomer Experiences in Developed Nations
https://canadianscholars.ca/book/immigration-public-policy-and-health/

About Canada: Health and Illness, 2nd edition
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/about-canada-health-and-illness

Tackling Health Inequalities: Lessons from International Experiences
Foreword by Alex Scott-Samuel
https://canadianscholars.ca/book/tackling-health-inequalities/

Health Promotion and Quality of Life in Canada: Essential Readings
https://canadianscholars.ca/book/health-promotion-and-quality-of-life-in-canada/

See a presentation! The Political Economy of Health Inequalities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NCTYqAub8g

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

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

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