Poverty and Policy in Canada
Printer-friendly versionBy Dennis Raphael
This book is unlike any other on the topic. Poverty and Policy in Canada provides a unique perspective on poverty and its importance to the health and quality of life of Canadians. This original volume considers a range of issues that will be of great interest to a variety of audiences.
Throughout the book, particular emphasis has been placed on the lived experiences of poverty.
"This volume explores social and political forces that conspire to allow poverty to continue unabated. At the simplest level, poverty's sheer invisibility keeps it off the national radar. That's why Professor Raphael's work is so necessary. Poverty and Policy in Canada will strengthen our struggle to make poverty visible, to thereby make it politically real, and ultimately to make poverty history."
-Jack Layton, Leader, New Democratic Party of Canada
Dennis Raphael is Professor and Undergraduate Programme Director at the School of Health Policy and Management at York University. He serves as a consultant to the Canadian Public Health Agency and is an advisor to an upcoming PBS series on social inequalities and health in the USA.
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The Canadian Women's Health Network and the Centres of Excellence for Women's Health program are financially supported by Health Canada through the Women's Health Contribution Program. The views herein do not necessarily represent the official policy of Health Canada.