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Wellesley Institute works in research and policy to improve health and health equity in the GTA through action on the social determinants of health.

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Poverty Is Making Us Sick: Overview of Health Indicators

Poverty is making Canadians sick, robbing hundreds of thousands of their health and leading to widespread preventable illness and creating huge costs for the health care system. The Poverty is Making Us Sick study uses Canadian Community Health Survey and income files to paint the most comprehensive picture to date of our nation’s health. This table accompanies the report.

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Acknowledgement of Traditional Land

We wish to acknowledge this land on which the Wellesley Institute operates. For thousands of years, it has been the traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. Today, this meeting place is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work on this land.

Revised by the Ceremonial Committee at the University of Toronto Office of Indigenous Initiatives in April 2021.