December 2011
11 posts
Canada News: Minimum wage hike key to cutting... →
“The government says the best route out of poverty is a job,” says Deena Ladd of the Workers’ Action Centre, a non-profit, worker-based organization. “But people working full time earning minimum wage are still having trouble paying the bills.”
A new agenda focused on health and community... →
As Susan Detzer says in her introduction: “new tools can help focus attention and frame decision making on the health-promoting potential of community investment measures,” including so-called “health impact assessments”).
Historical Trauma, American Indians, and Health →
One difference noted between Holocaust, other trauma survivors, and American Indians is that for American Indians “[t]here has been no ‘safe place’ to begin again”. In other words, catastrophic group traumas such as the Holocaust, had a beginning and an end. The survivors and descendants are dealing with the repercussions. However, for many in Indian Country, historical and contemporaneous...
First snow, and a New York state of mind →
…local and regional public health units can become actively engaged in debates about issues far outside their ‘silos’. The coming of winter tells us that they can start with thoroughly mundane questions of servicing priorities: is one more plowing of arterial roads really more important than clearing sidewalks of snow and ice in neighbourhoods where seniors live and which...
Le diabète au Canada : Perspective de santé... →
Diabetes in Canada: Facts and figures from a... →
Chicago Asks Students to Help It Be More... →
Health Behaviors Do Not Explain the Growing... →
Two visual thoughts | Inequalities →
Produit : Coup d'oeil sur la santé →
Ont. urged to set clear goals for disease... →
Dr. Arlene King made the recommendation in her annual report, saying the province needs to set clear goals for every health benefit it wants to achieve. She’s also urging Ontario to apply a “health lens” to every program and policy to clarify the potential impact of everything the province does.