A basic income guarantee is not a magic bullet for all forms of economic deprivation in our society, according to a York University professor – but it’s absolutely necessary for the most severe instances of poverty. Dr. Dennis Raphael, a professor of Health Policy and Management at York University in Toronto, says the people in poverty within the bottom 10-15 ... Read More »
The third edition of a highly influential book written by York University Professor Dennis Raphael was released May 1, and offers updates and extended analysis to the first and second editions of Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives (Canadian Scholar’s Press). The book’s first volume was published in 2004 as the result of a 2002 York University-led national conference on the ... Read More »
When Dr. Dennis Raphael first became aware of the proven connection between adverse health effects and social inequality, he assumed the media would be all over it. Richard Wilkinson’s ‘Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality’ had just been released in 1996 and it shone a spotlight on the unfavourable health consequences of “neo-liberal restructuring of the economy in the UK,” ... Read More »
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