Of related interest:

Poverty and Policy in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life by Dennis Raphael
Foreword by Jack Layton
http://tinyurl.com/2hg2df

Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care, edited by Dennis Raphael, Toba Bryant, and Marcia Rioux
Foreword by Gary Teeple
http://tinyurl.com/2zqrox

Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, edited by Dennis Raphael
Foreword by Roy Romanow
http://tinyurl.com/yptzae

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
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http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/draphael