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Tackling Health Inequalities: Lessons from International Experiences provides a unique perspective on health inequalities in Canada and elsewhere. This exciting new volume brings together experiences from seven wealthy developed nations--the United States, Australia, Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Finland, Norway, and Sweden--to analyze their contrasting approaches to reducing avoidable health problems. Some nations are successfully responding to health inequalities, but Canada is not one of them. Why is this, and what can we learn from other nations?
Through a political economy lens, Tackling Health Inequalities considers how societal structures and institutions shape the distribution of economic, political, and social resources that affect health disparities amongst the population. The volume then goes on to examine how governing authorities come to either confront or ignore these health inequalities and the conditions that create them. Through these illustrations, it encourages governing authorities that are tackling health inequalities to continue their efforts and directs those that are not--such as in Canada and elsewhere--towards what must be done.
This groundbreaking text shows the primary lessons from these international experiences: that citizens in Canada and elsewhere need to educate themselves about the importance of tackling health inequalities, and then build the political and social movements that will compel governmental authorities to take action. This volume will serve as a rich resource for professionals and general readers interested in health studies, nursing, social work, public policy, and political economy.
Reviews and Comments
"For Canada, this book will be an ideal text, and it will be a very good text for comparative health systems courses in other countries as well... Many courses tackling the issue of the political economy of health and health inequalities could make use of such a volume." Dr. Carlos Quiñonez, University of Toronto
Dennis Raphael is Professor of Health Policy and Management at York University.
Details
Published:
November 2012
ISBN-13:
978-1-55130-412-0
Format:
310pp, Paperback
Table Of Contents
Preface
Foreword, Alex Scott-Samuel
Chapter 1: The Importance of Tackling Health Inequalities, Dennis Raphael
Chapter 2: American Experiences, Stephen Bezruchka
Chapter 3: Australian Experiences, Fran Baum, Matt Fisher, and Angela Lawless
Chapter 4: British and Northern Irish Experiences, Katherine E. Smith and Clare Bambra
Chapter 5: Canadian Experiences, Dennis Raphael
Chapter 6: Finnish Experiences, Juha Mikkonen
Chapter 7: Norwegian Experiences, Elisabeth Fosse
Chapter 8: Swedish Experiences, Mona C. Backhans and Bo Burstrom
Chapter 9: An Analysis of International Experiences in Tackling Health Inequalities, Dennis Raphael
Chatper 10: Moving Forward: Applying the Lessons from International Experiences, Toba Bryant
Appendix A: A Checklist for Whole-of-Government or Intersectoral Approach
Glossary of Terms
Contributor Biographies
Canadian health expert Dennis Raphael's new title Tackling Health Inequalities: Lessons from International Experience will be launched on Thursday, November 8, at Riverdale Library (370 Broadview Avenue) from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Join us for snacks, mingling, and discussions of what we can learn from other countries in our battle to reduce health inequities.
Vancouver Sun article "Premiers: Remember that Poverty Affects All Canadians" exhorts Canadian politicians to bear this in mind as the premiers' and territorial leaders' annual meeting convenes this week in Halifax.
Professor of Health Policy at York University and author/editor of multiple CSPI titles including Tackling Health Inequalities forthcoming in November, Dennis is quoted, "... Thousands of accumulated studies have come to the same basic conclusion: The incidence of poverty is a severe – if not the most severe – threat to the health and quality of life of individuals, communities, and societies in wealthy industrialized societies such as Canada."
Read the full article here
Podsocs: Podcasts for Social Workers Episode 38 features a conversation on the nature and impact of Health Inequalities with Dennis Raphael, Professor of Health Policy at York University and author of Tackling Health Inequalities, published with CSPI this past fall.
Click here to listen!
York University's news article "New book examines how wealthy developed nations tackle health inequalities" provides highlights of our brand new book edited by Dennis Raphael, Professor of Health Policy and Management at York, and author of over 150 scientific publications. "In North America, the picture is rather bleak. The US has just begun to highlight the issue of health inequalities, but governmental authorities have done little to tackle them." Canadian governmental statements provide plentiful arguments for addressing health inequalities, with rather little actual activity actually seen, Raphael adds.
Read more of health policy expert Raphael's insight into how Canada can confront these problems here
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Canadian Scholars’ Press gratefully acknowledges financial support for our publishing activities from the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Media Development Corporation and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.
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