Dennis Raphael
dennisraphael.bsky.social
Dennis Raphael
@dennisraphael.bsky.social

Canadian, university professor, Bertolt Brecht admirer, Raptors fan, potato cannon engineer, South Riverdale enthusiast/resident, socialist since grade 6. More info about me here: https://discover.academics.yorku.ca/Dennis.Raphael/about .. more

Dennis Raphael is a Canadian social scientist who has written extensively on the social inequalities in health in Canada and elsewhere.

Source: Wikipedia
Public Health 31%
Political science 22%
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Opinion: Is a nation (Canada) falling from 5th to 22nd in life expectancy rankings a sign of something wrong?
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Opinion: Is a nation falling from 5th to 22nd in life expectancy rankings a sign of something wrong?
Growing income and wealth inequality, housing and food insecurity, lack of unionized jobs, and a health-care system in crisis contribute.
calgaryherald.com

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Please help make this a strong petition that gets the attention of the federal and provincial governments because of the sheer number of people who have signed it. Please help us not to fail in this endeavour.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-6811 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca

Petition to demand the federal government
enforce the Canada Health Act in Ontario
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-6811 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca

Desperately seeking reductions in health inequalities in Canada: Polemics and anger mobilization as the way forward?

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

All those who have thought about the bad state of things refuse to appeal to the compassion of one group of people for another. But the compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.
– Bertolt Brecht,