Health Determinants/Social Determinants of Health
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- A Brief History of the Medical Reform Group
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1995
Covers the year 1979 - 1994.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Cancer is Capitalist Violence
Anthropology Against Oncology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
It’s been two decades since the publication of Martha Balsham’s landmark study, “Cancer in the Community: Class and Medical Authority (1993).” Balshem, a hospital-based anthropologist, documented how a Philadelphia “lay community” rejected medical advice to stop smoking, eat fruits and vegetables and schedule regular screening tests. The working class community of Tannerstown (a pseudonym) instead blamed air pollution from highway traffic and nearby chemical plants, as well as fate, for their cancers.
- Connexions Library: Health Focus
Resource Type: Website
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on health.
- The doctors who care
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1985
An article about the Medical Reform Group of Ontario (MRG), a group of progressive doctors who are challenging the medical establishment and who take the position that their profession has a responsibility to be active in all matters which contribute to ill-health, whether or not it is politically popular. MRG members Michael Rachlis, Fran Scott, Debby Copes and Miriam Garfinkle are quoted.
- Don Weitz in conversation with Ulli Diemer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Activist Don Weitz interviewed by Ulli Diemer, December 8, 2016.
- Genocide by Prescription: The "Natural History" of the Declining White Working Class in America
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The white working class in the US has been decimated through an epidemic of 'premature deaths' -- a bland term to cover-up the drop in life expectancy in this historically important demographic. This is the first time in the country's 'peacetime' history that its traditional core productive sector has experienced such a dramatic demographic decline -- and the epicenter is in the small towns and rural communities of the United States.
- Health For People in the 1980's A Work in Progress
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
- Health Nexus
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Home Sweet Home?
The Impact of Poor Housing on Health
Resource Type: Book
The authors set out to research three topics: the link between overcrowding and respiratory and infectious diseases; how and if housing deprivation impacts on overall health and finally the link between housing and health in the context of the range of other possible influences on health.
- How Class Kills
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A recent study showing rising mortality rates among middle-aged whites drives home the lethality of class inequality.
- The Impact of Inequality
How to Make Sick Societies Better
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
- Medicare Myths and Realities
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine public support for, and confidence in, the health care system, with the goal of gradually undermining and dismantling it.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017
Race and Class
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class, in particular, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
- Public Health students examine the disease of Occupation, joined by founder of Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Graduate students from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health are calling for discussion on the ongoing occupation of Palestinian territories. The Public Health Social Justice Collective challenges medical and public health practices.
- Race and Class
Introduction to the February 12, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Class conflict -- first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race.
- Recession led to 260k extra cancer deaths, experts claim
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Unemployment and austerity were associated with more than 260,000 extra deaths of cancer patients in countries belonging to the Organisation for Economic Development (OECD), a study has shown. Those countries with universal health coverage , such as the UK, and a record of increased public health spending had fewer casualties.
- Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2916
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
- The Wages of Whiteness is Early Death
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The white working class has never had it easy in American history. It's been viciously exploited, disrespected, deceived, divided, repressed, and otherwise and generally abused from the United States' colonial origins through the present day.
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