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| Title: | Poverty & Policy in Canada
: Implications for Health & Quality of Life |
| Author: | Dennis Raphael |
| ISBN: | 155130323X : 9781551303239 |
| Illustrations: | tables |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 425 |
| Weight: | .71 Kg. |
| Published: | Canadian Scholars' Press - April 2007 |
| List Price: | 26.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Canada: Poverty |
This book provides a unique interdisciplinary perspective on poverty and its importance to the health and quality of life for Canadians. Central issues include: definitions of poverty and means of measuring it in wealthy nations such as Canada; causes of poverty -- both situational and societal; health and social implications of poverty for individuals, communities and society as a whole; and means of addressing the incidence of poverty and improving its effects.
Part 1: Defining and Measuring Poverty in Canada; Part 2: The Experience of Poverty; Part 3: Poverty, Health and Quality of Life; Part 4: Public Policy and Poverty; Index.
