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Health Promotion International, Vol. 19, No. 2, 269-273, June 2004
HEALTH PROMOTION INTERNATIONAL Vol. 19. No. 2 © Oxford University Press 2004. All rights reserved

Toronto charter outlines future health policy directions for Canada and elsewhere

Dennis Raphael1, Toba Bryant2 and Ann Curry-Stevens3

1School of Health Policy and Management and 2York Centre for Health Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada M3J 1P3 and 3Department of Adult Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 1V6
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From 29 November to 1 December 2002, a conference of more than 400 Canadian social and health policy experts, community representatives and health researchers met at York University in Toronto, Canada, to consider the state of 10 key social or societal determinants of health across Canada, to explore the implications of these conditions for the health of Canadians and to outline policy directions to improve the health of Canadians by influencing the quality of these determinants of health. The conference took place at a time when Canadian social and health policies were undergoing profound changes related to shifting political, economic and social conditions (Bryant, 2002Go).

The conference was funded by the Policy Research Program of Health Canada, with support from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, in the tradition of Canadian government action on the determinants of health. It brought together representatives from a wide range of sectors: labour, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Strengthening the Social Determinants of Health: The Toronto Charter for a Healthy Canada
Immediate Action
Long-Term Action

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