The best way of escaping poverty is to move from the USA and Canada to Norway, Sweden, or Denmark. Or to transform these former embarrassments for societies into  social democratic welfare states. The NDP opposition in Ottawa is a beginning. Period.


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Get a free copy of Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts at http://thecanadianfacts.org

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

Dennis Raphael, PhD
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York University
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Of interest:

* New *  Poverty in Canada, 2nd edition,
Forewords by Rob Ranier and Jack Layton
http://www.cspi.org/books/poverty_canada

About Canada: Health and Illness
http://tinyurl.com/2c2tm6l

Health Promotion and Quality of Life in Canada: Essential Readings
http://tinyurl.com/3C8zteu

Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, 2nd edition,
Forewords by Carolyn Bennett and Roy Romanow
http://tinyurl.com/3fkbr8u

Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care, 2nd edition
Foreword by Gary Teeple
http://tinyurl.com/4xlu4up

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://www.case.edu/med/ccrhd/education

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