Colleagues:
The second edition of "Social Determinants of Health: Canadian
Perspectives" is now available at
http://tinyurl.com/5l6yh9
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Table of Contents
Foreword to the Second Edition, The Honourable Carolyn Bennett
Foreword to the First Edition, The Honourable Roy J. Romanow
Preface
Part One: Introducing the Social Determinants of Health
Chapter 1: Social Determinants of Health: An Overview of Key Issues and
Themes
Dennis Raphael
Chapter 2: Social Structure, Living Conditions, and Health
Dennis Raphael
Part Two: Income Security and Employment in Canada
Chapter 3: When Economic Growth Doesn’t Trickle Down: The Wage Dimensions
of Income Polarization
Ann Curry-Stevens
Chapter 4: Income, Income Distribution, and Health in Canada
Nathalie Auger and Carolyne Alix
Chapter 5: Precarious Work and the Labour Market
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay
Chapter 6: Labour Market Flexibility and Worker Insecurity
Emile Tompa, Michael Polanyi, and Janice Foley
Chapter 7: The Unhealthy Canadian Workplace
Andrew Jackson
Chapter 8: Understanding and Improving the Health of Work
Peter Smith and Michael Polanyi
Part Three: Foundations of Lifelong Health: Education
Chapter 9: Early Childhood Education and Care as a Social Determinant of
Health
Martha Friendly
Chapter 10: Early Childhood Education and Health
Brenda L. Smith-Chant
Chapter 11: The State and Quality of Canadian Public Elementary and Secondary
Education
Charles Ungerleider, Tracey Burns, and Fernando Cartwright .
Chapter 12: Literacy and Health Literacy: New Understandings about Their
Impact on Health
Barbara Ronson and Irving Rootman
Part Four: Foundations of Lifelong Health: Food and Shelter
Chapter 13: Food Insecurity
Lynn McIntyre and Krista Rondeau
Chapter 14: Health Implications of Food Insecurity
Valerie Tarasuk
Chapter 15: Housing
Michael Shapcott
Chapter 16: Housing and Health: More Than Bricks and Mortar
Toba Bryant
Part Five: Social Exclusion
Chapter 17: Social Exclusion
Grace-Edward Galabuzi
Chapter 18: Social Inclusion/Exclusion and Health: Dancing the Dialectic
Ronald Labonte
Chapter 19: The Health of Aboriginal Peoples
Janet Smylie
Part Six: Public Policy
Chapter 20: Follow the Money: How Business and Politics Defi ne Our Health
David Langille
Chapter 21: Health and Health Care: A Human Rights Perspective
Elizabeth McGibbon
Chapter 22: Public Policy and the Welfare State
Lars K. Hallstrom
Chapter 23: Public Policy, Gender, and Health
Pat Armstrong
Chapter 24: Surmounting the Barriers: Making Action on the Social Determinants
of Health a Public Policy Priority
Dennis Raphael and Ann Curry-Stevens
Appendix: Strengthening the Social Determinants of Health: The Toronto
Charter for a Healthy Canada
References
Contributors’ Biographies
Copyright Acknowledgements
Index
Dennis Raphael, PhD
Professor, 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