Income and Health Equity

• Asset-building Approaches and the Search for a New Social Policy Architecture in Canada
• 2007 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada
• A Review Of Policy Options for Increasing Food Security and Income Security in British Columbia - A Discussion Paper
  (Sept 2007)
• Best start: Ontario's Maternal Newborn and Early Child Development Resource Centre
  • Reducing the Impact: working with pregnant women who live in difficult life situations
  • The Impact Of Poverty On Pregnant Women - A Guide for Program Managers
  • Poverty, Pregnancy, and Culturally Diverse Women
• Canadian Housing Equity Resources
• CNA Social Justice Guage -- A tool to assess policies
• Falling Behind: Our Growing Income Gap
• Fighting hunger today could help prevent obesity tomorrow
• Growinggap.ca Fact Sheets pdf
• The Guide to Services for Lower-Income Albertans
• Health inequalities: concepts, frameworks and policy - Briefing paper (UK)
• Hunger Count: Annual national survey of emergency food programs in Canada (The Canadian Association of Food Banks) - 2005 Survey just released.
• Dennis Raphael PowerPoint Presentations:
  • Poverty Makes Me Sick. Presentation at the Community Forum on Poverty and Health*
  • A Prescription for Poor Health: Poverty, Health and Public Policy.*
  • Social Determinants of Health and the Imperative of Addressing Poverty and Social Exclusion in Calgary.*
  • Social Determinants of Health: Influencing Health and Well-being Through Community Services, Community Action, and Social Policy Change*
• Linking Research and Practice for Health-promoting Social Change (PowerPoint & Audio Presentation)
• Measuring Financial Protection in Health
  Health systems are not just about improving health: good ones also ensure that people are protected from the financial consequences of receiving medical care. This document by Adam Wagstaff (The World Bank) focuses on the following issues: How can one measure the success with which a health system protects people against the financial consequences of ill health? What do systems that do well in this regard have in common? And how far do health system reforms improve people’s financial protection vis-à-vis health expenses?
• National Anti-Poverty Organization
• One million too many: Implementing solutions to child poverty in Canada. 2004 report card on child poverty in Canada. [pdf, 12pp, 186KB] Reports from previous years are also available.
• Public Report: Left Out: Perspectives on Social Exclusion and Social Isolation in Low-income Populations May, 2004
• Policies of Exclusion, Poverty & Health
• Researching income and income distribution as determinants of health in Canada: gaps between theoretical knowledge, research practice, and policy implementation
• Shared Learnings on Homelessness
• SHELTER. Homelessness in a growth economy: Canada’s 21st century paradox
  A Report for the Sheldon Chumir Foundation for Ethics in Leadership
• Social Determinants of Health. The Solid Facts. Second edition
• The Rich And The Rest Of Us. The changing face of Canada’s growing gap (March 2007)
• The Social Determinants of Health: An Overview of the Implications for Policy and the Role of the Health Sector
• Tackling Health Inequities through Public Health Practice: A Handbook for Action (USA)
• The National Collaborating Centre for the Social Determinants of Health: Foundations for the Future A Backgrounder on the Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequities (April 2006)
• The South West Alberta Coalition on Poverty - The Cost of Poverty in our Communities
• The Reality of Child & Family Poverty in Southwest Alberta (Sept 2005)
• The Tides of Change: Addressing Inequity and Chronic Disease in Atlantic Canada; A Discussion Paper (Jan 06)
  • Turning the Tide ...Tool Kit (Jan 06)
• Toronto charter outlines future health policy directions for Canada and elsewhere
• Using Community-Based Participatory Research to Address Health Disparities
  Health Promotion Practice, Vol. 7, No. 3, 312-323 (2006)
• The Wellesley Institute [The Wellesley Institute advances the social determinants of health through community-based research , capacity building , and the informing of public policy.]

* These links are PowerPoint presentations using QuickPlace by Dennis Raphael , School of Health Policy and Management at York University. These are on page 3 in the Library at: http://quartz.atkinson.yorku.ca/QuickPlace/draphael/Main.nsf/