$22m plan aims to make one million healthier in B.C. The new provincial initiative to improve the overall health of British Columbians focuses on four key areas: Victoria, health groups want to 'create a new social norm' BC is now the poverty capital of Canada. See how you can divert attention from this! http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/story.html?id=f3cd3884-95f2-45da-bcbb-63baa47746ee&k=21850 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Of interest: Poverty and Policy in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life by Dennis Raphael Foreword by Jack Layton http://tinyurl.com/2uds3s Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care, edited by Dennis Raphael, Toba Bryant, and Marcia Rioux Foreword by Gary Teeple http://www.cspi.org/books/s/staying.htm Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, edited by Dennis Raphael Foreword by Roy Romanow 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-a1af-9a9e04b28e1d Also, presentation on Politics and Health at the Centre for Health Disparities in Cleveland Ohio http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4129139685624192201&hl=en Dennis Raphael, PhD Professor and Undergraduate Program Director School of Health Policy and Management York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto ON M3J 1P3 416-736-2100, ext. 22134 email: [log in to unmask] 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 1200+ 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