We're a small non-profit working to mobilize a #SDOH approach in health care and mitigate the impacts of structural violence. Health is more than medical care!
Vancouver, BC
Joined August 2012
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Calling for action for kids in the #covid19bc recovery: basicsforhealthsociety.ca/ad…
Sign our letter & join >200 organizations, researchers & health workers asking @jjhorgan for a task force to support resilience & prevent more kids from falling through the cracks #bcpoli @FirstCallBC
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While the new BC poverty reduction strategy #togetherBC makes a welcome commitment to tackle deep poverty, it's hard to imagine how this can be achieved without substantial increases to welfare & disability rates and a more ambitious buildout of below-market housing. #bcpoli
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That weak goal stems from the fact that govt remains unwilling to address the core need to boost social & disability assistance rates (as noted above), even though the cost of doing so is absolutely within govt's budget capacity: policynote.ca/deep-poverty/#…
@PovReductionBC
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Target to reduce deep poverty is also disappointing. Gvt says plan will result in *average* person in poverty having an income of 75% of poverty line. In contrast, @PovReductionBC has long called for *everyone* in poverty to reach at least 75% of pov line within 2 yrs.
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Unfortunately, there were no additional increases in welfare & disability rates in today's strategy so people on welfare & disability assistance will continue to live in deep poverty (less than 75% of the poverty line). In my view, this is the biggest shortcoming of #togetherbc.
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Should there be ICD-10 codes for social determinants of health like inadequate housing, lack of adequate food and social isolation? healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377… via @Health_Affairs @fgani1 #sdoh
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When “Upstream” Public Health Efforts Fall Short
“In this way, health equity work ‘services’ communities, while staying relatively apolitical & keeping the status quo intact, or worse, exacerbating inequity.”
#SDoH #HiAP #Interdependence medium.com/@HumanImpact_HIP/… @HumanImpact_HIP – at Delaware, USA
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To cure hunger, prescribe income #SDoH @BasicsforHealth @PovReductionBC @CCPA_BC #bcpoli xitter.cf/UpstreamAction/status/…
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Hey #creditunion people, this @onthemedia series on #poverty should be required listening and discussing. wnyc.org/series/busted-ameri…
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@BasicsforHealth include food and income security, safe & secure housing. Meeting basic needs means healthier community @PovReductionBC
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Project #Homeless Connect connects the most vulnerable San Franciscans to vital resources dld.bz/ew6e7
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Good heath consists of so much- social determinants of health - Tparamedics! #sdoh @UpstreamAction @BasicsforHealth xitter.cf/CBCCanada/status/76747…
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Being poor, not having private ins Risk Factors for 30-Day Readmissions to General Surgery ja.ma/296e1p6 #SDOH @BasicsforHealth
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If we want to fight #addiction, we can’t ignore #inequality theguardian.com/commentisfre… #sdoh #cdnhealth @SK_HIV_Research @UpstreamAction
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Great effort by Psychiatry Dept at @UofT: advocacy day on immigration detention and healthcare for uninsured.
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INFOGRAPHIC: June is #stroke awareness month. Learn the signs & what to do. @TheHSF #CreateSurvivors
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At #CanadianPain16? Check out poster 192 & meeting the socio-economic needs of #chronicpain patients in BC.
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"No specific questions about poverty, its causes or possible solutions were asked in any of the nine debates" #SDoH fair.org/home/in-nine-democr…