Kate Meyers of the Kaiser Permanent Institute for Health Policy has done a comprehensive and insightful review of the research literature on race and health disparities in the US. The goal of her paper is to help develop a clear conceptual and multi-sectoral analytical framework to understand disparities and a platform from which better policy […]
Archives for March 2007
New Website On The Social Determinants Of Health
The Public Health Agency of Canada has launched a new web site related to Canada’s work in the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health. It provides information on the Canadian reference group (I was at a consultation on the role of civil society in relation to the SDoH organized by the […]
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TO 2007 operating budget: Housing and homelessness cuts
Three governmental budgets have been delivered over the past seven days, and the hundreds of thousands of low, moderate and middle-income Torontonians seeking affordable housing have been left out of all three. The federal budget of March 19 was entirely silent on new affordable housing spending; the provincial budget of March 22 merely re-announced previously […]
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Ontario budget 2007: Thanks for the thoughts, but where's the money?
Ontario’s 2007 provincial budget has plenty of strong language about poverty and affordable housing. But the dollars are missing. Not a single new penny has been devoted to affordable housing, and the dollars devoted to eradicating poverty are limited and stretch over a number of years. At a time when 600,000 Ontario households are in […]
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First peek at federal budget 2007: Disappointment!
Wellesley Institute backgrounder: A first look at the 2007 federal budget The 2007 federal budget entirely ignores Canada’s nation-wide affordable housing crisis and homelessness disaster, and is light when it comes to other social determinants of health. More detailed analysis will follow in the coming days as experts and analysts dig through the 477-page federal […]
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Will federal budget deliver new housing program?
The Harper government will deliver its second federal budget on Monday, March 19, 2007. Canada is one of the richest countries in the world, and the federal government continues to run multi-billion dollar surpluses (largely because of huge spending cuts – including housing spending – in the 1980s and 1990s). The Wellesley Institute’s 2007 federal […]
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Tuesday night cinema
Stephen Broomer’s documentary on the Toronto homeless street count will be screened at Toronto’s Brunswick Theatre on Tuesday, March 27, at 7 p.m. (296 Brunswick). “The Great Homeless Count” is a spirited romp through the politics and methodology of counting homeless people, and assessing their needs. Michael Shapcott, Senior Fellow at the Wellesley Institute, is […]
New Journal: Progress in Community Health Partnerships (PCHP)
The first issue of the new journal Progress in Community Health Partnerships (PCHP): Research, Education and Action (Spring 2007, Vol. 1.1) has just been released. Members of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health can subscribe to the journal at a 20% discount. Click here for details. Its mission is to “facilitate dissemination of programs that use community […]
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Day one – national Aboriginal housing summit
Sunday was day one of Canada’s first-ever national Aboriginal urban housing summit in Winnipeg. The National Aboriginal Housing Association invited about 80 Aboriginal housing leaders from across the country for several days of information-sharing and strategizing. I was delighted, and honoured, to be invited to deliver a keynote address at the Sunday luncheon and will […]
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