PHA-Exchange> New Canadian Book on Social Determinants of Health

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From: <Dennis.Raphael at mail.atkinson.yorku.ca>
> http://www.cspi.org/books/s/socialdeter.htm

> Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives
> General editor, Dennis Raphael
> Foreword, Roy Romanow

> New Book -- Now Available

> Uniting top academics and high profile experts from across the country,
> this contributed volume is the first of its kind published in Canada. It
> summarizes how socio-economic factors affect the health of Canadians,
> surveys the current state of eleven social determinants of health across
> Canada, and provides an analysis of how these determinants affect
> Canadians’ health. In each case, the book explores what policy options
> would contribute to better health outcomes, and how to ensure that these
> options are pursued.
>
> Eleven critical areas are investigated: Aboriginal status, early life,
> education, employment and working conditions, food security, health care
> services, housing, income and its distribution, social safety net, social
> exclusion, as well as unemployment and employment security. Gender, and
how
> its meaning is constructed within Canadian society, is another important
> social determinant of health. All contributors systematically consider how
> it impacts upon and interacts with their specific social determinant of
> health to influence health.

> August 2004  1-55130-237-3 pb 400 pp  C$45.95 US$37.95
> Distributed by  Georgetown Terminal Warehouses Limited
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