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Communicating the Social Determinants of Health Guidelines for Common Messaging 2013 — This document is based on research commissioned by the Canadian Council on Social Determinants of Health (CCSDH), previously known as the Canadian Reference Group on Social Determinants of Health (CRG). Our health is influenced by many diverse factors. These include the work we do, our level of education, our income, where we live, the quality of our experiences when we are children and the physical environment that surrounds us. Together, these factors are referred to as social determinants of health (SDH).
Social Capital as a Health Determinant How is it Defined? 2003 — This report is a summary of social capital research commissioned by the Policy Research Division, Strategic Policy Directorate, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada. The work attempts to clarify the place of social capital among the social determinants of health.
Social Capital as a Health Determinant How is it Measured? 2003 — This report focusses on the methodological aspects of social capital research. It is a follow-up to an initial report on the subject commissioned by the Policy Research Division, Strategic Policy Directorate, Population and Public Health Branch, Health Canada.
Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives 2009 (Excerpt) — This work represents a unique undertaking in the social determinants of health area as it brings together scholarship by those working in early childhood education and care, education and literacy, employment and working conditions, food security, gender, health services, housing, income and its distribution, social exclusion, the social safety net, and unemployment and job insecurity with work by those specifically focused on the health effects of these issues.
Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts 2010 — pdf at http://www.thecanadianfacts.org/The_Canadian_Facts.pdf
Social Determinants of Health | Canadian Best Practices — The social determinants of health influence the health of populations. They include income and social status; social support networks; education; employment/working conditions; social environments; physical environments; personal health practices and coping skills; healthy child development; gender; and culture.Jan 13, 2015
Social Determinants of Health and Nursing - Canadian 2005 — Backgrounder
Social determinants of health inequalities 2005 — The gross inequalities in health that we see within and between countries present a challenge to the world. That there should be a spread of life expectancy of 48 years among countries and 20 years or more within countries is not inevitable. A burgeoning volume of research identifies social factors at the root of much of these inequalities in health.
Social Justice is Good for Our Hearts Why Societal Factors — Not Lifestyles — are Major Causes of Heart Disease in Canada and Elsewhere 2002 — Why should inequality, perhaps the biggest factor affecting the health of populations, be so bad for us? In a big gap society, those lower down the ladder experience more chronic stress than those towards the top.
The Arithmetic of Health Care 2004 — Canada’s experience with federal-provincial cost sharing in the 1980s shows that it is bad public policy to have one level of government running a program like health care while another level is committed to paying a share of its costs with no power to administer the programs and ensure their cost-effectiveness
Tips for learning and teaching evidence-based medicine 2004 — teaching clinicians the basic EBM skills of formulating questions, finding the relevant literature efficiently, appraising that literature and applying it to their patient care remains challenging.
WHO | Social determinants of health — The 66th World Health Assembly of WHO in May 2013 approved the report on the progress on action on Social Determinants of Health.
Why Competition Is Essential in the Delivery of Publicly Funded Health Care Services 2004 — Improvements in productivity are the key to making the health care delivery system more cost effective and reducing the rate at which health care expenditures grow.