- Progress for Children: [1] 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 [2]
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 [3]: Report on the Calgary Roundtable (CPRN April 16, 2007)
- Campaign 2000 -End Child Poverty in Canada [4]
- 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 [5]
- Canada! Too Many Children Live In Poverty For Too Long!2006 report card on child poverty in Canada
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Making Work Pay [7]- CPRN Nov 2006
Social Capital and Health: Maximizing the Benefits [8]
Women 's Perspectives on Poverty: Photos and stories by women on low-income in Calgary [9](Oct 2004)
Keeping Kids in School - Pathways to Education are Pathways to Health [10]- Featured in Canadian Health Network's Healthlink newsletter.
Fundamental Sources of Health Inequalities [11] Link BG and Phelan JC Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care, 71-84, May 2005
Health inequalities: concepts, frameworks and policy - Briefing paper [12] 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 [13] 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 [14] Geneva, World Health Organization, 2004 -WHO Environmental Burden of Disease Series, No. 10
Why the Innocenti Report Card on Child Poverty is so important... [14](pdf)
Innocenti Report Card No. 7 [15] - Child Poverty in Perspective: an overview of child well-being in rich countries. (UNICEF IRC, 20 April 2007)
Health systems confront poverty [16]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 [17] (September 2005)
Social Exclusion and the Health of Canadians: Where are the Gaps? [18] 2003 Social Inclusion Research Conference Summary
Links:
[1] http://www.unicef-irc.org/article.php?type=1&id_article=86
[2] http://www.streethealth.ca/publications.htm
[3] http://www.cprn.org/documents/48077_en.pdf
[4] http://www.campaign2000.ca/rc/index.html
[5] http://www.campaign2000.ca/rc/rc07/2007_C2000_NationalReportCard.pdf
[6] http://www.campaign2000.ca/rc/rc06/06_C2000NationalReportCard.pdf
[7] http://www.campaign2000.ca/rc/
[8] http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/sr-sr/pubs/hpr-rpms/bull/2006-capital-social-capital/2006-capital-social-capital_e.html
[9] http://www.ucalgary.ca/gender/WAFI%20Report2.pdf
[10] http://www.canadian-health-network.ca/servlet/ContentServer?cid=1123759726144&pagename=CHN-RCS/CHNResource/CHNResourcePageTemplate&c=CHNResource
[11] http://www.rwjf.org/research/researchdetail.jsp?id=1944
[12] http://www.nice.org.uk/aboutnice/whoweare/aboutthehda/evidencebase/keypapers/papersthatinformandsupporttheevidencebase/health_inequalities_concepts_frameworks_and_policy__briefing_paper.jsp
[13] http://action.web.ca/home/crru/rsrcs_crru_full.shtml?x=73897&AA_EX_Session=2fefca724957690e038b5662f7e1d42c
[14] http://www.who.int/quantifying_ehimpacts/publications/en/ebd10.pdf
[15] http://www.unicef-icdc.org/publications/pdf/rc7-corr-eng.pdf
[16] http://www.euro.who.int/document/e80225.pdf
[17] http://www.chr.ab.ca/bins/doc.asp?rdc_id=5461
[18] http://www.ccsd.ca/events/inclusion/proceedings/health.htm
