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Author / Creator:Raphael, Dennis, author.
Uniform title:About Canada
Edition:Second edition.
Imprint:Halifax : Fernwood Publishing, [2016]
Description:186 pages ; 18 cm.
Language:English
Series:About Canada ; 4
About Canada (Black Point, N.S.) ; 4.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11011775
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ISBN:9781552668269
1552668266
9781552669020
9781552669037
Notes:Revision of the author's About Canada.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-179) and index.
Issued also in electronic format.
Summary:"This book is an introduction to issues of the social determinants of health. Social determinants of health of the living and working conditions that shape whether we remain healthy or become ill the social determinants of health are shaped themselves by public policy made by Canadian governments. The last 20 years has seen public policy operating in such a way as to threaten health rather than supported. This is very much a reflection of the growing dominance of the corporate and business sector on Canadian life and sees its reflection in growing income and wealth inequalities, precarious work and unstable employment and deteriorating working and living conditions for many Canadians. It is well documented that these conditions are the ones that lead to poor health as well as social disruption. This book aims to educate Canadians about these issues and provide means by which they are to be addressed. As such this book will serve as a wake-up call to Canadians that they need to pressure their elected representatives to create public policy that in the interest of the majority of the Canadians and not the well-of. As such this should lead to improved health and quality of life for Canadians and reverse recent public policy trends are working against health and quality of life."--
Other form:Raphael, Dennis, author. Health and illness. 2nd edition. About Canada series About Canada series ;

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