Poverty in Canada
Subtitle: implications for health and quality of life
By: Dennis Raphael
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9781551303949; 9781551304557
Subjects: Poverty; Textbooks; Poor; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Social policy; Social Welfare; Economic policy; Pauvreté; Manuels d'enseignement supérieur; Pauvres; Conditions sociales; Conditions économiques; Politique sociale; Politique économique; Economic history
Description: "This book is unlike any other. Poverty in Canada provides a unique, interdisciplinary perspective on poverty and its importance to the health and quality of life of Canadians. This volume considers a range of issues that will be of great interest to a variety of audiences - those studying or working in Community and Developmental Psychology, Education, Health Promotion, Health Studies and Health Sciences, Medicine and Nursing, Political Science and Policy Studies, Public Health, Social Work, and Sociology, as well as the general public

Central issues include: the definitions of poverty and means of measuring it in wealthy, industrialized nations such as Canada; the causes of poverty - both situational and societal; the health and social implications of poverty for individuals, communities, and society as a whole; and the means of reducing its incidence and responding to its effects. Particular emphasis has been placed on the lived experiences of poverty throughout the book.

This second edition has been thoroughly updated and features a new chapter on anti-poverty programs, updated data on poverty rates and information on newly developed Canadian measures of deprivation, and an extended discussion of what Canadians can do to first reduce - and then eliminate - poverty in Canada."--Pub. desc
Notes: Originally publ. under title: Poverty and policy in Canada.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Defining and measuring poverty in Canada. Poverty and the modern welfare state; title: Canadian perspectives on poverty; title: Who is poor in Canada?; title: Making sense of poverty: social inequality and social exclusion.; title: pt. 2. The experience of poverty. Pathways to poverty; title: The lived experience of poverty; title: Interactions with the social assistance and health care systems.; title: pt. 3. Poverty, health, and quality of life. Poverty and health; title: Poverty and health: mechanisms and pathways; title: Poverty and quality of life.; title: pt. 4. Politics, public policy, and poverty. The politics of poverty; title: Canadian public policy and poverty in international perspective; title: Anti-poverty strategies and programs; title: Poverty and the future of the Canadian welfare state.