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. ************************************************************************ ' 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 ________________________________ From: Social Determinants of Health [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dennis Raphael Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 2:16 PM To: [log in to unmask] 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 ------------------- Problems/Questions? Send it to Listserv owner: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe, send the following message in the text section -- NOT the subject header -- to [log in to unmask] SIGNOFF SDOH DO NOT SEND IT BY HITTING THE REPLY BUTTON. THIS SENDS THE MESSAGE TO THE ENTIRE LISTSERV AND STILL DOES NOT REMOVE YOU. To subscribe to the SDOH list, send the following message to [log in to unmask] in the text section, NOT in the subject header. SUBSCRIBE SDOH yourfirstname yourlastname To post a message to all 1000+ subscribers, send it to [log in to unmask] Include in the Subject, its content, and location and date, if relevant. For a list of SDOH members, send a request to [log in to unmask] To receive messages only once a day, send the following message to [log in to unmask] SET SDOH DIGEST To view the SDOH archives, go to: https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/sdoh.html