05 Dec Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts

Social Determinants of Health:  The Canadian Facts
by Juha Mikkonen and Dennis Raphael
Foreword by Hon. Monique Bégin (Former Minister of National Health & Welfare of Canada)
Published in May 2010.

Free download available here: http://thecanadianfacts.org

The publication outlines why the social determinants of health are important; how Canada is doing in addressing them; and what can be done to improve their quality. The purpose of the document is to provide promote greater awareness of the social determinants of health and the development and implementation of public policies that improve their quality.

“This wonderful document, Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts is about us, Canadian society, and what we need to put faces and voices to the inequities – and the health inequities in particular – that exist in our midst. Only when we see a concrete description of these complex and challenging problems, when we read about their various expressions in all the regions of the country and among the many sub-groups making up Canada, can we move to action.”
– Hon. Monique Bégin, PC, FRSC, OC from the Foreword. (Member of WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, and Former Minister of National Health & Welfare of Canada)