Beyond ‘Run, Knit and Relax’: Can Health Promotion in Canada Advance the Social Determinants of Health Agenda?

Schrecker, Ted

doi:10.12927/hcpol.2013.23590

Beyond ‘Run, Knit and Relax’: Can Health Promotion in Canada Advance the Social Determinants of Health Agenda?

Schrecker, Ted

Authors

Ted Schrecker

Abstract

Can health promotion in Canada effectively respond to the challenge of reducing health inequities presented by the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health? Against a background of failure to take seriously issues of social structure, I focus in particular on treatments of stress and its effects on health, and on the destructive congruence of Canadian health promotion initiatives with the neoliberal "individualization" of responsibility for (ill) health. I suggest that the necessary reinvention of the health promotion enterprise is possible, but implausible.

Citation

Schrecker, T. (2013). Beyond ‘Run, Knit and Relax’: Can Health Promotion in Canada Advance the Social Determinants of Health Agenda?. Healthcare Policy, 9(Special Issue), 48-58. https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2013.23590

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Oct 1, 2013
Deposit Date	Dec 10, 2013
Publicly Available Date	Feb 18, 2014
Journal	Healthcare Policy
Print ISSN	1715-6572
Electronic ISSN	1715-6580
Publisher	Longwoods Publishing
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	9
Issue	Special Issue
Pages	48-58
DOI	https://doi.org/10.12927/hcpol.2013.23590