2003
Addressing the Social
Determinants of Health in Canada: Bridging the Gap Between Research
Findings and Public Policy
RAPHAEL, Dennis. Montreal : Institute for research on public policy.
Policy Options March 2003, Vol 24 No 3: 35-40.
Nouvelles perspectives
sur la santé des Montréalais : une action commune pour
réduire les inégalités
LESSARD, Richard. Montreal : Institute for research on public policy.
Policy Options March 2003, Vol 24 No 3: 35-40.
The
Toronto Charter for a Healthy Canada (PDF format)
Centre for Social Justice. Toronto : Charter resolved at the conference
«Social Determinants of Health Across the Life-Span: A Current
Accounting and Policy Implications 29 Nov. – 1st Dec. 2002,
and ratified on February 10th, 2003.
2002
A
Strategy for tackling health inequalities in the Netherlands
MACKENBACH, Johan P. and Karien STRONKS in BMJ 2002;325:1029-1032
(2 November )
This article, published in the British Medical Journal, looks at
the Dutch strategy to finding solutions to reduce socio-economic
inequalities in health. For the last 10 years, the Dutch Ministry
of Health has undertaken research to tackle the problem. An enriching
experience that calls for international exchange to speed up transfer
of knowledge and succeed in implementing effective interventions
and policies.
Parents’
labour market participation as a predictor of children’s health
and wellbeing : a comparative study in five Nordic countries
REINHARDT PEDERSEN and M MADSEN. Journal of Epidemiology and Community
Health 2002; 56 :861-867.
2001
Income,
socioeconomic status, and health : exploring the relationships
AUERBACH, James A et Barbara KIVIMAC KRIMGOLD (eds.). NPA Report #299.
Washington, DC : National Policy Association , 2001. (ISBN 0-89068-154-6)
Netherlands
aims to tackle health divide
SHELDON, T. In BMJ News extra 323 : 828.
Towards
public health on equal terms (downloadable document
PDF format)
Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (Sweden). Stockholm, Fact Sheet
no. 3, March 2001
2000
Equity-oriented national
strategy for public health in Sweden (downloadable
document PDF format)
ÖSTLIN, Piroska et Finn DIDERICHSEN. Bruxelles, European Center
for Health Policy, 2000.
Overview of the Swedish government approach to develop an equitable
public health strategy.
Health inequalities in
Canada : current discourses and implications for public health action
(downloadable document PDF format)
RAPHAËL, Dennis in Critical Public Health, Vol. 10,
No 2. 2000.
Health in equal terms - National goals for public health
Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (Sweden). Stockholm : Government
Official Reports ; 2000. (SOU 2000 : 91)
Poverty, Inequality
and Health - An Iinternational Perspective
LEON, David et Gill Walt (eds.). Oxford, Oxford University Press,
2000. (ISBN 0-19-263196-9)
Poverty, inequality and health is a topic of global public health
significance. This book brings together a unique multidisciplinary
group of experts to discuss issues relevant to our understanding
of the socio-economic and biological processes that drive these
inequalities. The book challenges established perceptions and views
and generates new outlooks and potential solutions. The book will
be of great interest to reseachers, policy analysts and policy makers
from both developed and developing countries.
1999
Socioeconomic
status and health in industrial nations : social, psychological, and
biological pathways
ADLER, N.E., M. MARMOT et al. (eds.). Annals of The New York Academy
of Sciences 896. New York, 1999.
1998
Social determinants
of health : The solid facts.
WILKINSON, R and M. MARMOT (eds.) Centre for Urban Health, Copenhagen
: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, 1998. (downloadable
document PDF format)
Social
Inequalities in Health : Annual Report on the health of the Population
Direction de santé publique de Montréal-Centre. Montréal
: Régie régionale de la Santé et des Services
sociaux de Montréal-Centre, 1998.
1997
The Black Report and beyond. What are the issues?
MACINTYRE, S. Social Science and Medicine 1997; 44 : 723-745.
1996
Unhealthy society. The afflictions of inequality
WILKINSON, RG. London UK : Routledge, 1996.
1994
Socioeconomic
inequalities in health in the Netherlands : Impact of a five year
research programme
MACKENBACH, JP. In BMJ 309 : 1487-1491.
1986
Ottawa charter
for health promotion (downloadable document
PDF format)
First international conference on health promotion held in Ottawa
from 17 to 21 November 1986. Ottawa : World Health Organisation, Health
and Welfare Canada and the Canadian Public Health Association.
1982
The Black Report
TOWNSEND P et N. DAVIDSON. London UK : Pelican Book, 1982.
1981
The number one challenge in public health : broadening our vision
in order to meet our true objectives (text in French)
SIEMIATYCKI, Jack A. and Lesley J. RICHARDSON. Union médicale
du Canada. November 1981.
Taken in the broad sense, the environment - physical, chemical,
biological, social and cultural - has a greater impact on health
of the community than does the medical care system. Public health
agencies have not assumed their responsibilities in protecting and
improving the environment. the public health system should be actively
concerned with public education, community development, and public
policy on all manner of subjects (eg. transportation systems, advertising
in the media, food industry, R& D). The central role of medically
trained persons in the public health system is unnecessary and may
hinder progress. An example is presented in the field of control
of occupational carcinogenesis. Hitherto we have depended upon medical
epidemiologic evidence to pinpoint dangerous products and to suggest
safe exposure levels. The tremendous number of occupational exposure
and the extreme difficulty of carrying out an adequate epidemiologic
study for each one, renders this strategy futile and dangerous.
The solutions are in the engineering field. The systematic reduction
or elimination of occupational exposures to all substances - proven
dangerous or not is the only long-term policy which would control
occupational cancer. In this example, as in many others, imaginative
non-medical expertise will prove to be of greatest importance.
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