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From: Dennis Raphael/fs/YorkU
Date: 06/27/2017 02:50PM
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Subject: Canadian Men's Health FoundationBoilermakers of CanadaCanadian Medical AssociationPHACMinister Jane PhilpotMinister Carolyn BennettPrime Minister Justin TrudeauCanadian Mental Health AssociationSince you are identified as either a funder and/or partner of the Don't Change Much Initiative, you should re-consider your support of the rather reactionary approach taken by this agency.Please look at the article associated with this link.Abstract
The Canadian Men’s Health Foundation (CMHF) receives significant funding and media attention for its Don’t Change Much initiative, which claims freely chosen small behavioural changes will improve men’s health across Canada. The enthusiastic support for the CMHF’s individual lifestyle interventions that take no account of the structural drivers of men’s health and health inequalities is considered through an application of Ruth Levitas’ utopian analysis exercise. We consider the utopian visions that permeate the CMHF’s initiative and examine its culture through the lens of discursive institutionalism to identify the hegemonic values that imbue CMHF’s and other Canadian health promotion activities. We then suggest more useful directions for improving men’s health and reducing the health inequalities that pervade the Canadian scene.
Sincerely,Dennis Raphael
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Of interest:
Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, 3rd edition
Forewords by Michael Butler and Maude Barlow, Carolyn Bennett and Roy Romanow
http://tinyurl.com/hm5l4hn
Immigration, Public Policy, and Health: Newcomer Experiences in Developed Nations
http://www.cspi.org/books/immigration-public-policy-and- health
About Canada: Health and Illness, 2nd edition
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/about-canada-health-and- illness
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
Health Promotion and Quality of Life in Canada: Essential Readings
http://tinyurl.com/3C8zteu
Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care, 2nd edition
Foreword by Gary Teeple
http://tinyurl.com/4xlu4up
See a presentation! The Political Economy of Health Inequalities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NCTYqAub8g
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
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
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