On January 30 Wellesley presented a brief to the Standing Committee on Social Policy on Bill 36, the enacting legislation. We were also asked for some Continue Reading…

Demos, a leading progressive British think tank, has published an analysis of very ambitious plans to reform children's services in the UK: The Leadership Continue Reading…

As I do every weekend I read both the Toronto Star and Globe and Mail newspapers. An interesting article appeared in the Sunday Star in the ideas section- The Continue Reading…

Planning for next year's Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) 10th anniversary conference, April 11-14, 2007 in Toronto is underway! We are Continue Reading…

Social exclusion, access to employment and income distribution have been shown to be crucial determinants of health. At the same time, data indicates that Continue Reading…

Nurses' professional associations have long done useful policy work on the social determinants of health. A recent paper from the Canadian Nurses Association Continue Reading…

Recent English research on volunteering highlights the analytical value of drilling down into small-scale neighbourhood-based analyses to better understand the Continue Reading…

There has been increasing discussion within Canadian public health circles on how the social determinants of health can be put into practice. The Sudbury and Continue Reading…

One of the major challenges of community engagement processes such as the recent consultation undertaken by the Toronto Central LHIN is ensuring that the full Continue Reading…

Congratulations to Fife House who have received a US$ 500,000 grant from the MAC AIDS Fund to expand their innovative transitional housing programme for people Continue Reading…