Barriers to addressing the social determinants of health: Insights from the Canadian experience

Raphael, Dennis; Curry-Stevens, Ann; Bryant, Toba

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2008.03.015

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“…However many definitions exist for the concept of food security (Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, 2003) Food security is a social determinant of health (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2005;Raphael, Curry-Stevens, & Bryant, 2008). Food insecurity is, according to the Canadian Report Household Food Insecurity in Canada 2011 a "significant social and public health problem in Canada.…”

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Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Food Security through a Disability Studies Lens

Wolbring¹,

Mackay²

2014

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Food security is an issue of global concern recognized by numerous international and national agencies. It has been mentioned over twenty times in the Rio+20 outcome document The Future We Want. It is recognized as an essential human security by the World Health Organization Commission for Human Security and as a social determinant of health. Food security agendas are enacted in many places locally to globally. Media are to inform the public on issues of importance for the public. Disabled people are part of the public and disabled people are one group experiencing over proportional levels of food insecurity. We investigated the food security coverage of various newspapers through a disability studies lens. To obtain quantitative data on the visibility of disabled people and other groups in the food security discourse the following newspapers were investigated: The Globe and Mail (Canada), National Post (Canada), Calgary Herald (Canada), New York Times (USA), The Guardian (UK), The Times (UK), and the Canadian Newsstand complete, a collection of 300 Canadian newspapers. Quantitative and qualitative data on what food security issues were reported was obtained from The Globe and Mail (Canada), Calgary Herald (Canada) and the New York Times (USA). We discuss how issues reported around food security are influenced by disabled people and how they could impact disabled people. We found very little to no mentioning of disabled people within food security coverage. Our data also reveals the absence of coverage of other socially disadvantaged groups such as indigenous people and immigrants and a lack of a human rights or ethics angle. We posit that many of the food security problems mentioned are of relevance to and experienced by disabled people and other socially disadvantaged groups such as indigenous people and immigrants however the reader won't make the linkage by reading the newspapers we investigated. We conclude that the utility of the newspapers covered in advancing food security for disabled people and other socially disadvantaged groups is very low.

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Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Food Security through a Disability Studies Lens

Wolbring¹,

Mackay²

2014

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“…Assuming Canada's public health care insurance system survives attempts to increase its privatization, addressing the social determinants of health (SDH) and their unequal distribution among the population represent the next frontier for reducing health inequalities, a point long recognized in Canadian governmental and public health institutional documents [3]. It is also an emphasis reinforced by the conclusions of the World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health [1].…”

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Canada: A land of missed opportunity for addressing the social determinants of health

Bryant¹,

Raphael²,

Schrecker³

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“…While Canada has provided leadership in the conceptual development of health promotion and population health, it has failed to implement public policies and programmes that effectively address social determinants of health, leading to the persistence of a variety of health challenges, not least of which are Aboriginal health inequities (Raphael et al, 2008). Furthermore, many question the ability of health programming to improve the health of Aboriginal people in Canada if it does address historical injustices.…”

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A decolonizing approach to health promotion in Canada: the case of the Urban Aboriginal Community Kitchen Garden Project

Mundel

Chapman

2010

Health Promotion International

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SUMMARYAboriginal people in Canada suffer ill-health at much higher rates compared with the rest of the population. A key challenge is the disjuncture between the dominant biomedical approach to health in Canada and the holistic and integrative understandings of and approaches to health in many Aboriginal cultures. More fundamentally, colonization is at the root of the health challenges faced by this population. Thus, effective approaches to health promotion with Aboriginal people will require decolonizing practices. In this paper, we look at one case study of a health promotion project, the Urban Aboriginal Community Kitchen Garden Project in Vancouver, Canada, which, guided by the teachings of the Medicine Wheel, aims to provide culturally appropriate health promotion. By drawing on Aboriginal approaches to healing, acknowledging the legacy of colonization and providing a context for cultural celebration, we suggest that the project can be seen as an example of what decolonizing health promotion could look like. Further, we suggest that a decolonizing approach to health promotion has the potential to address immediate needs while simultaneously beginning to address underlying causes of Aboriginal health inequities.

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Barriers to addressing the social determinants of health: Insights from the Canadian experience

Cited by 156 publications

References 35 publications

Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Food Security through a Disability Studies Lens

Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Food Security through a Disability Studies Lens

Canada: A land of missed opportunity for addressing the social determinants of health

A decolonizing approach to health promotion in Canada: the case of the Urban Aboriginal Community Kitchen Garden Project

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