This month the Poverty Reduction Coalition (PRC) of BC launched a #ReThink Poverty Campaign, which runs from March through September of 2016. Over the course of the coming months, the…
Posted on February 2, 2014
by Diana Daghofer Barack Obama, Pope Francis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and organizations like Oxfam and the World Health Organization are all saying it: Inequality is the greatest concern…
Posted on January 27, 2014
By Jalil Safaei The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) discourse is getting more practical for improving the health of populations and reducing health inequalities. Following the WHO Commission on SDOH…
Posted on January 7, 2014
By John Millar For those of us involved in advocacy and lobbying to reduce health and socioeconomic inequities, it is not unusual to be met with a couple of common…
Posted on December 16, 2013
By Dr. John Millar In a recent book ‘The Body Economic – Why Austerity Kills. Recessions, budget battles, and the politics of life and death’, David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu…
Posted on October 22, 2013
By Marjorie MacDonald I did not get the opportunity to blog this weekend because I have been sick. The only good thing about that was that I wasn’t hungry, which…