Because Canada is seen as a particularly egalitarian society with a commitment to
comprehensive, accessible health care, there has been a tendency to assume that there will …

If properly developed and effectively worked out, the program of the Department of
Community Medicine can become a major force in promoting the Medical Center objective …

Banfield (1) has described the nature of the urban crisis as involving the essenfial welfare of
individuals or the good health of society. The good health of society is reflected when that …

Homelessness is a devastating social problem that affects a large number of people in
Toronto. While it is broadly recognized that homeless people have much poorer health than …

The history of public health has been intimately linked with the history of cities. Cities are
both the birthplaces of the great epidemics of infectious diseases, environmental pollution …

The geographies of health inequalities are a long-established and central tenet of research
in medical geography (see Curtis, 2004) and, as with other parts of the subdiscipline …

Background Although the Canadian health care system provides essential services to all
residents, evidence suggests that socioeconomic gradients in disease outcomes still persist …

The authors provide background on the poor health and economic status of the residents of
East Baltimore, Maryland—the neighborhood surrounding a significant part of Johns …

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The Street Health Report assaulted in the past year 2007 presents the results of a survey on
the health The health of homeless people is very poor.[...] The nightly count of city is …