From draphael at yorku.ca Wed Feb 1 07:07:27 2023 From: draphael at yorku.ca (Dennis Raphael) Date: Wed Mar 20 12:13:42 2024 Subject: [Pophealth] New Socialism and Health Listserv In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Join the new Socialism and Health Listserv at https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=socialism-health&A=1 The Socialism and Health List-serv is intended as an international forum for those concerned with the latest developments in theory, research, and practice regarding the role that our economic system plays in threatening health. For many years, we believed that the structures and processes of social democratic and even conservative welfare states could serve as models for liberal welfare states such as Canada to emulate. Clearly, the quality and equitable distribution of the social determinants of health are superior in these welfare states compared to what is seen in liberal welfare states such as Canada. Yet, despite these differences, all forms of welfare states are now subject to the insidious effects of neoliberal governance in numerous health-related areas: macro-level distribution of resources, provision of health and social services, and environmental protection, among others. The last area is of special importance. The climate crisis and the growing inevitability of a climate catastrophe are suggesting that even the environmental policies of so-called eco-social welfare states ? which happen to be the social democratic welfare states -- will not be able to assure the survival of a habitable planet. Yet, while there is general agreement among socialists that capitalism is incapable of dealing with the range of crises we are facing and averting a climate catastrophe, there is rather less agreement as to what a socialist state would actually look like and the means of attaining it. Here we agree with Meiville who stated in A Spectre Haunting (2022) that what is needed is humility, an acceptance that we cannot be sure of what socialism will look like and that on the way towards it we will make mistakes. But we also agree with Meiville that socialism ?would give an infinitely greater likelihood of sustaining a habitable world than more of the same system that got us here.? Get a free copy of Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts, 2nd edition at http://thecanadianfacts.org Join the new Socialism and Health Listserv at https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=socialism-health&A=1 Join 850+ health leaders on the SDOH Listserv at https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SDOH&A=1 Dennis Raphael, PhD Professor of Health Policy and Management York University 4700 Keele Street Strong College, Room 334 Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 416-736-2100, ext. 22054 email: draphael@yorku.ca Website: http://health.info.yorku.ca/health-profiles/index.php?mid=162284 Of interest: The Politics of Health in the Canadian Welfare State https://canadianscholars.ca/book/the-politics-of-health-in-the-canadian-welfare-state/ Poverty in Canada, 3rd edition, Forewords by Cathy Crowe, Rob Ranier and Jack Layton https://canadianscholars.ca/book/poverty-in-canada-d3408482-0caa-489a-8a76-7faf7587d00a/ Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care, 3rd edition Foreword by Gary Teeple https://canadianscholars.ca/book/staying-alive/ Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, 3rd edition Forewords by Michael Butler and Maude Barlow, Carolyn Bennett and Roy Romanow https://canadianscholars.ca/book/social-determinants-of-health-3rd-edition/ Immigration, Public Policy, and Health: Newcomer Experiences in Developed Nations https://canadianscholars.ca/book/immigration-public-policy-and-health/ About Canada: Health and Illness, 2nd edition https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/about-canada-health-and-illness Tackling Health Inequalities: Lessons from International Experiences Foreword by Alex Scott-Samuel https://canadianscholars.ca/book/tackling-health-inequalities/ Health Promotion and Quality of Life in Canada: Essential Readings https://canadianscholars.ca/book/health-promotion-and-quality-of-life-in-canada/ See a presentation! The Political Economy of Health Inequalities. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NCTYqAub8g Also, presentation at the University of Toronto on how Canada stacks up again other nations in providing citizens with economic and social security. http://vimeo.com/33346501 See what Jack Layton had to say about my books! http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/04/10/cv-election-ndp-layton-platform.html at 27:20 From draphael at yorku.ca Wed Feb 1 07:05:59 2023 From: draphael at yorku.ca (Dennis Raphael) Date: Wed Mar 20 12:13:42 2024 Subject: [Pophealth] New Socialism and Health Listserv Message-ID: Join the new Socialism and Health Listserv at?https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=socialism-health&A=1 The Socialism and Health List-serv is intended as an international forum for those concerned with the latest developments in theory, research, and practice regarding the role that our economic system plays in threatening health. For many years, we believed that the structures and processes of social democratic and even conservative welfare states could serve as models for liberal welfare states such as Canada to emulate. Clearly, the quality and equitable distribution of the social determinants of health are superior in these welfare states compared to what is seen in liberal welfare states such as Canada. Yet, despite these differences, all forms of welfare states are now subject to the insidious effects of neoliberal governance in numerous health-related areas: macro-level distribution of resources, provision of health and social services, and environmental protection, among others. The last area is of special importance. The climate crisis and the growing inevitability of a climate catastrophe are suggesting that even the environmental policies of so-called eco-social welfare states ? which happen to be the social democratic welfare states -- will not be able to assure the survival of a habitable planet. Yet, while there is general agreement among socialists that capitalism is incapable of dealing with the range of crises we are facing and averting a climate catastrophe, there is rather less agreement as to what a socialist state would actually look like and the means of attaining it. Here we agree with Meiville who stated in A Spectre Haunting (2022) that what is needed is humility, an acceptance that we cannot be sure of what socialism will look like and that on the way towards it we will make mistakes. But we also agree with Meiville that socialism ?would give an infinitely greater likelihood of sustaining a habitable world than more of the same system that got us here.? Get a free copy of Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts, 2nd?edition at?http://thecanadianfacts.org Join the new Socialism and Health Listserv at?https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=socialism-health&A=1? Join 850+ health leaders on the SDOH Listserv at?https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SDOH&A=1 Dennis Raphael, PhD Professor of Health Policy and Management York University 4700 Keele Street Strong College, Room 334 Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 416-736-2100, ext. 22054 email:?draphael@yorku.ca Website:?http://health.info.yorku.ca/health-profiles/index.php?mid=162284 Of interest: The Politics of Health in the Canadian Welfare State https://canadianscholars.ca/book/the-politics-of-health-in-the-canadian-welfare-state/ ? Poverty in Canada, 3rd?edition, Forewords by Cathy Crowe, Rob Ranier and Jack Layton https://canadianscholars.ca/book/poverty-in-canada-d3408482-0caa-489a-8a76-7faf7587d00a/ ? Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care, 3rd?edition Foreword by Gary Teeple https://canadianscholars.ca/book/staying-alive/ ? Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, 3rd edition Forewords by Michael Butler and Maude Barlow, Carolyn Bennett and Roy Romanow https://canadianscholars.ca/book/social-determinants-of-health-3rd-edition/ Immigration, Public Policy, and Health: Newcomer Experiences in Developed Nations https://canadianscholars.ca/book/immigration-public-policy-and-health/ About Canada: Health and Illness, 2nd edition https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/about-canada-health-and-illness Tackling Health Inequalities: Lessons from International Experiences Foreword by Alex Scott-Samuel https://canadianscholars.ca/book/tackling-health-inequalities/ Health Promotion and Quality of Life in Canada:?Essential Readings https://canadianscholars.ca/book/health-promotion-and-quality-of-life-in-canada/ See a presentation! The Political Economy of Health Inequalities. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NCTYqAub8g Also, presentation at the University of Toronto on how Canada stacks up again other nations in providing citizens with economic and social security. http://vimeo.com/33346501 See what Jack Layton had to say about my books! http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/04/10/cv-election-ndp-layton-platform.html at 27:20 From draphael at yorku.ca Sat Feb 11 07:41:39 2023 From: draphael at yorku.ca (Dennis Raphael) Date: Wed Mar 20 12:13:43 2024 Subject: [Pophealth] This may be of interest. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Communicating Friedrich Engels's return to Manchester: Arts and cultural event, history lesson, or call to action? Human Geography The attached article is open-access at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19427786221120659 https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2022/09/07/paper-shows-arts-cultural-community-has-influence-on-political-social-environments/ https://marxistsociology.org/2022/09/why-a-19th-century-concept-of-social-murder-is-very-much-relevant-today/ Dennis Get a free copy of Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts, 2nd edition at http://thecanadianfacts.org Join the new Socialism and Health Listserv at https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=socialism-health&A=1 Join 850+ health leaders on the SDOH Listserv at https://listserv.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SDOH&A=1 Dennis Raphael, PhD Professor of Health Policy and Management York University 4700 Keele Street Strong College, Room 334 Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3 416-736-2100, ext. 22054 email: draphael@yorku.ca Website: http://health.info.yorku.ca/health-profiles/index.php?mid=162284 Of interest: The Politics of Health in the Canadian Welfare State https://canadianscholars.ca/book/the-politics-of-health-in-the-canadian-welfare-state/ Poverty in Canada, 3rd edition, Forewords by Cathy Crowe, Rob Ranier and Jack Layton https://canadianscholars.ca/book/poverty-in-canada-d3408482-0caa-489a-8a76-7faf7587d00a/ Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care, 3rd edition Foreword by Gary Teeple https://canadianscholars.ca/book/staying-alive/ Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives, 3rd edition Forewords by Michael Butler and Maude Barlow, Carolyn Bennett and Roy Romanow https://canadianscholars.ca/book/social-determinants-of-health-3rd-edition/ Immigration, Public Policy, and Health: Newcomer Experiences in Developed Nations https://canadianscholars.ca/book/immigration-public-policy-and-health/ About Canada: Health and Illness, 2nd edition https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/about-canada-health-and-illness Tackling Health Inequalities: Lessons from International Experiences Foreword by Alex Scott-Samuel https://canadianscholars.ca/book/tackling-health-inequalities/ Health Promotion and Quality of Life in Canada: Essential Readings https://canadianscholars.ca/book/health-promotion-and-quality-of-life-in-canada/ See a presentation! The Political Economy of Health Inequalities. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NCTYqAub8g Also, presentation at the University of Toronto on how Canada stacks up again other nations in providing citizens with economic and social security. http://vimeo.com/33346501 See what Jack Layton had to say about my books! http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/04/10/cv-election-ndp-layton-platform.html at 27:20 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 11. Engels statue HUG.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 2206203 bytes Desc: 11. Engels statue HUG.pdf URL: From lmanriquez at gmail.com Mon Feb 13 22:54:39 2023 From: lmanriquez at gmail.com (Luis Manriquez) Date: Wed Mar 20 12:13:43 2024 Subject: [Pophealth] Health Equity Organizer job positions open now In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello all, I am very excited to be offering these two organizer positions as part of the WSU Elson S Floyd College of Medicine Health Equity Initiative. The positions are open and accepting applications now. Please forward to your networks to help us find and support two amazing organizers. *Health Equity Lead Clinic Organizer (Everett)* The Health Equity Lead Clinic Organizer will provide support to local clinics through ongoing development of clinic organizing programs. The lead organizer supports the clinic-based community organizing initiative that seeks to identify common health and social issues impacting patients, develop patient and staff leaders capable of leading change, and create patient-clinic-community collaborations (or communities of solution) to address patient-identified issues. Rather than focusing solely on the individual patient as the unit of intervention, the program extends towards the community as the unit of change, diagnosing community-wide barriers/issues (e.g., racism, sexism, trans-/homo-phobia, housing instability, food insecurity) rather than illness alone, and addressing them with community-powered solutions and leadership development for civic engagement. https://wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jobs/job/Health-Equity-Lead-Clinic-Organizer_R-8707 *Health Equity Circle Organizer (Spokane)* The Health Equity Organizer will provide support to student led health equity circle chapters in Spokane and oversees the regional network of Health Equity Circle student chapters. The Health Equity organizer position is an academic-community collaboration between the WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and the Health Equity Circle. Key responsibilities will include: creating systems, developing and delivering curriculum involving the impacts of social determinants of health, relational leadership, and community organizing on health equity to build student capacity for upstream change; establishing a strong network of engaged interprofessional student leaders and community partners. https://wsu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WSU_Jobs/job/Health-Equity-Circle-Organizer_R-8762-1 Please let me know if you have any questions, *Luis Manriquez, MD * Pronouns: He/him <-Why is this here? Community Health Equity Director Office of Land Grant Mission and Leadership O: 509-368-6880 Luis.manriquez@wsu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The discussions are open to anyone (not just health professionals) seeking to deepen their personal understanding of issues related to systemic racism and strengthen their commitment toward creating a more just, equitable, and healthy world. Our hearts go out to Tyre Nichols' family and friends, and to all those who have lost loved ones by gun and police violence. This discussion series is also part of our ongoing commitment to address the public health emergencies of gun and police violence, particularly toward African-Americans who are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. Discussion with Stephen Bezruchka author of Inequality Kills Us All: COVID-19's Health Lessons for the World Tuesday, February 21, 7:00 pm PT, online RSVP HERE BEFORE joining the discussion: 1. Please listen to this radio show: About Health with host RN Rona Renner and guest Stephen Bezruchka You can listen to the show online at your leisure. LISTEN HERE 2. Please read this article by Bezruchka: "Inequality is literally killing us: The most unequal societies suffer most in public health metrics" 3. If you have the time, please also read his outstanding book. You can buy it at this link or ask your local library for a copy: Inequality Kills Us All: COVID-19's Health Lessons for the World, published by Routledge. Stephen Bezruchka is a graduate of Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford universities. He teaches courses in population health in the Departments of Health Systems and Population Health and of Global Health as faculty in the School of Public Health at the University of Washington. He worked clinically as a doctor for 35 years including three decades as an emergency physician. He spent over 11 years in Nepal, writing the first trekking guide to that country, running a community health project a week?s walk from the road, training Nepali doctors in a remote district hospital, and advancing concepts of population health. 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