Social Science Poverty & Homelessness
Poverty in Canada, Second Edition
Implications for Health and Quality of Life
- Publisher
- Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2011
- Category
- Poverty & Homelessness, Disease & Health Issues, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551303949
- Publish Date
- Sep 2011
- List Price
- $84.95
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Description
Poverty in Canada provides a unique, interdisciplinary perspective on poverty and its importance to the health and quality of life of Canadians. This volume considers a range of issues that will be of great interest to a variety of audiences—those studying or working in Community and Developmental Psychology, Education, Health Promotion, Health Studies and Health Sciences, Medicine and Nursing, Political Science and Policy Studies, Public Health, Social Work, and Sociology, as well as the general public.
Central issues include: the definitions of poverty and means of measuring it in wealthy, industrialized nations such as Canada; the causes of poverty—both situational and societal; the health and social implications of poverty for individuals, communities, and society as a whole; and the means of reducing its incidence and responding to its effects. Particular emphasis has been placed on the lived experiences of poverty throughout the book.
This second edition has been thoroughly updated and features a new chapter on anti-poverty programs, updated data on poverty rates and information on newly developed Canadian measures of deprivation, and an extended discussion of what Canadians can do to first reduce—and then eliminate—poverty in Canada.
About the author
Dennis Raphael, PhD, is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at York University. The most recent of his over 250 scientific publications have focused on the health effects of income inequality and poverty, the quality of life of communities and individuals, and the impact of government decisions on Canadians’ health and well-being. Dr. Raphael is editor of Tackling Health Inequalities: Lessons from International Experiences and Health Promotion and Quality of Life in Canada; co-editor of Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care; and author of Poverty in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life.
Editorial Reviews
"This text makes the concept of the social determinants of health come alive. There is no parallel Canadian treatment of the cumulative range of this material."— “Harvey Frankel, Dean, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba
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