2021
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9566.13399
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Desperately seeking reductions in health inequalities in Canada: Polemics and anger mobilization as the way forward?

Abstract: Progress in reducing health inequalities through public policy action is difficult in nations identified as liberal welfare states. In Canada, as elsewhere, researchers and advocates provide governing authorities with empirical findings on the sources of health inequalities and document the lived experiences of those encountering these adverse health outcomes with the hope of provoking public policy action. However, critical analysis of the societal structures and processes that make improving the sources of h… Show more

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“…Raphael et al. (2022) suggest that such language can energise movements for social justice and health equity.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Raphael et al. (2022) suggest that such language can energise movements for social justice and health equity.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Cox and Béland (2013: 308) define valence as “an emotional quality of an idea that can be either positive or negative in its character, or high or low in its intensity.” As a result, the valence of an idea can be either (a) negative, high; (b) negative, low; (c) neutral; and (d) positive, low; or positive, high. Raphael and colleagues (2022) analyzed the importance of valence for promoting social and political movements for progressive change. In our research, we considered valence categorizations in relation to the artist's intention of having the placement of the statue acting as a call to action.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Before the 1980s, it was generally accepted in the academic community that health inequalities diminished with advances in medical technology and socioeconomic development (20,21). However, with the publication of the Black Report, health inequalities increased (22)(23)(24)(25). Moreover, higher social strata were advantageous for health stratification (4,26,27).…”
Section: Ses and Residents' Srhmentioning
confidence: 99%