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A Healthy Society, Updated and Expanded Edition
How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy
Ryan Meili (Author), André Picard (Foreword by)
9780774880268
Paperback / softback, published 1 December 2017
248 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.38 kg
A Healthy Society now includes chapters on poverty, food security, and climate change. Thought-provoking and highly readable, it weaves together the vision of a young politician--Meili was elected leader of the Saskatchewan NDP in March 2018--and the advocacy of a good physician who has worked in rural and urban Saskatchewan and in Africa. - Dr. Fiona Clement, director of the Health Technology Assessment Unit at the O'Brien Institute of Public Health, University of Calgary (Alberta Views, Vol. 21, No. 9)
A Healthy Society, Updated and Expanded Edition, is one doctor's vision for a new approach to politics – and a new approach to building a healthier world. Drawing on his experiences as a family physician, Dr. Meili argues that health delivery too often focuses on treatment of immediate causes and ignores more fundamental conditions that lead to poor health. The social determinants of health – income, education, employment, housing, the wider environment, and social supports – have far more impact than the actions of health care providers. This updated edition describes the positive steps that have been taken since the publication of the first edition. It includes expanded discussions of basic income, poverty reduction strategies, innovative housing polices, carbon pricing, and the role of health professionals in working for health equity, as well as new chapters on poverty, food security, and climate change. This book breaks important ground, showing us how a focus on health can change Canadian politics for the better.
Foreword / André Picard Foreword to the First Edition / Roy Romanow Preface 1 A Healthy Society 2 Medicine on a Larger Scale 3 The Extra Mile 4 Growth and Development 5 The Search for a Cure to Poverty 6 Out of House and Home 7 The Warming World 8 The Equality of Mercy 9 Learning to Live 10 Heading Downstream 11 Less Politics, More Democracy 12 Our Future Together Notes; Index