Income and Social Status

Progress for Children: A World Fit for Children Statistical Review is the sixth in a series of Progress for Children reports released by UNICEF (December 2007)
The Street Health Report 2007
The Street Health Report 2007 presents the findings of a survey of 368 homeless adults in Toronto on their health and access to health care. This study was conducted in the winter of 2006/2007 by Street Health, a community-based health care organization working with homeless and under-housed people in downtown Toronto.
Towards an Effective Adult Learning System: Report on the Calgary Roundtable (CPRN April 16, 2007)
Campaign 2000 -End Child Poverty in Canada
- It Takes a Nation to Raise a Generation: Time for a National Poverty Reduction Strategy. 2007 report card on child and faminly poverty in Canada
- Canada! Too Many Children Live In Poverty For Too Long!2006 report card on child poverty in Canada

Making Work Pay- CPRN Nov 2006

Social Capital and Health: Maximizing the Benefits

Women 's Perspectives on Poverty: Photos and stories by women on low-income in Calgary (Oct 2004)

Keeping Kids in School - Pathways to Education are Pathways to Health- Featured in Canadian Health Network's Healthlink newsletter.

Fundamental Sources of Health Inequalities Link BG and Phelan JC Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care, 71-84, May 2005

Health inequalities: concepts, frameworks and policy - Briefing paper The purpose of this paper by the NHS Health Development Agency (UK) is to highlight some of the conceptual issues relating to socioeconomic inequalities in health.

Measuring child benefits: Measuring child poverty This report addresses two critical questions in social policy: what is child poverty and how much is an adequate child benefit?

Poverty: assessing the distribution of health risks by socioeconomic position at national and local levels Geneva, World Health Organization, 2004 -WHO Environmental Burden of Disease Series, No. 10

Why the Innocenti Report Card on Child Poverty is so important... (pdf)

Innocenti Report Card No. 7 - Child Poverty in Perspective: an overview of child well-being in rich countries. (UNICEF IRC, 20 April 2007)

Health systems confront poverty This report documents WHO's preliminary findings on how health systems can have a positive impact on alleviating poverty. The analysis of the case studies documented leads to three main conclusions: (a) that health systems can indeed take effective action to improve the health of the poor; (b) that in some cases health systems can actually represent an additional barrier for the poor; and (c) that there is an urgent need for more knowledge, training and capacity building in this area. [Source: [KUUC] E-Watch on Innovation in Health Services]

The Reality of Child & Family Poverty in Southwest Alberta (September 2005)

Social Exclusion and the Health of Canadians: Where are the Gaps? 2003 Social Inclusion Research Conference Summary

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