Welcome to the Poverty-Health Link, a blog concerned with the issues of global health, poverty, and the linkages between the two. Sounds like a lot of territory to cover? Well, yes, it is, but that’s intentional. I hope to pique the interest of a broad audience, and be able to connect people and ideas that would go unnoticed in more focused forum.
To get things started, I’ll be talking about the poverty-health link. In addition, I currently have a number of related topics that captivate my interest. These are some of the topics which you can expect to see addressed in the coming weeks:
- health care coverage and access, a truly worldwide problem, even in the country that claims the most advanced health system in the world
- health systems strengthening and reform in the developing world, particularly in the context of international technical cooperation
- micro-finance approaches to poverty alleviation
- market-based initiatives, again, addressing poverty
and that’s just to name a few. I would warmly welcome ideas of topics to cover, as well as tips about resources (particularly web-based) covering these themes. And, of course, your comments are welcome too.
Thanks for visiting, hope to see you back soon . . .
Injured workers in Canada are often denied workers compensation by workers compensation boards who are increasingly denying claims because of lobbying from the corporate sector to decrease benefits to save costs. The health implications on the worker and their families are enormous.
There are interesting developments, though, as the Canadian Senate this fall may look at the workers compensation system in Canada as a negative social determinant of health in their Population Health committee.
More info on this can be found at the Canadian Injured Workers Society at:
http://www.ciws.ca
It would be interesting if you could start a ‘workers compensation’ topic that would look at the issues of the denial of workplace injury compensation and health worldwide.