Title: Poverty and policy in Canada : implications for health and quality of life /
Authors: Raphael, Dennis
Publisher: CSPI,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Poverty Canada Textbooks.; Poor Canada Textbooks.; Pauvreté Canada Manuels d'enseignement supérieur.; Pauvres Canada Manuels d'enseignement supérieur.; Canada Social conditions Textbooks.; Canada Economic conditions Textbooks.; Canada Social policy Textbooks.; Canada Economic policy Textbooks.; Canada Conditions sociales Manuels d'enseignement supérieur.; Canada Conditions économiques Manuels d'enseignement supérieur.; Canada Politique sociale Manuels.; Canada Politique économique Manuels d'enseignement supérieur.
Contents: Poverty and the modern welfare state -- Canadian perspectives on poverty -- Who is poor in Canada? -- Making sense of poverty: social inequailty and social exclusion -- Pathways to poverty -- The lived experience of poverty -- Interactions with the social assistance and health care systems -- Poverty and health -- Poverty and Health: mechanisms and pathways -- Poverty and quality of life -- The politics of poverty -- Canadian public policy and poverty in international perspective -- Poverty and the future of the Canadian welfare state.