Great point, Marilyn! On 2013-08-30, at 11:31 AM, Marilyn King <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I think the richest and most educated would appreciate simpler forms. One > does not need to be poor to appreciate plain language. > > Marilyn King RN BScN MPH > Public Health Nurse > Huron County Health Unit > Box 795 > 288 Josephine St > Wingham Ont. > N0G 2W0 > [log in to unmask] > Phone: 1-519-357-4993 ext 202 > Fax: 1-519-482-9014 > www.huronhealthunit.com > This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the > intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential or privileged > information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is > prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the > sender and destroy the original message and all copies. > > > > Social Determinants of Health <[log in to unmask]> on Thursday, August 29, 2013 > at 8:39 PM -0400 wrote: >> "The researchers suggest that services for the poor shouldn't >> "cognitively tax" them. Positive measures could include simpler aid >> forms, more guidance for receiving assistance, and more flexibly >> structured training and educational programs." >> >> >> >> http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/poverty-lowers-brain-power-study-suggests-1.1432876#ixzz2dPNYJZmj >> >> >> >> >> >> My 13 year old son says: "Make the forms easier for poor people to >> apply to live in homeless shelters? >> >> >> dr >> >> >> >> >> 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 >> Professor of Health Policy and Management >> Graduate Program Director, Health Policy and Equity >> York University >> 4700 Keele Street >> Room 418, HNES Building >> Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 >> 416-736-2100, ext. 22134 >> email: [log in to unmask] >> Website: http://jasper.yorku.ca/draphael >> >> Of interest: >> >> *NEW* >> Tackling Health Inequalities: Lessons from International Experiences >> Foreword by Alex Scott-Samuel >> http://www.cspi.org/books/tackling_health_inequalities >> >> 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 at the University of Toronto on how Canada stacks up >> again other nations in providing citizens with economic and social >> security. >> http://vimeo.com/33346501 >> >> To leave, manage or join list: >> https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=sdoh&a=1 > > To leave, manage or join list: https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=sdoh&A=1 _____________________________ Dr. Adeline R. Falk-Rafael, PhD,RN, FAAN Professor, School of Nursing HNES 341 York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 416-736-2100 x 33596 To leave, manage or join list: https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=sdoh&A=1