Social Determinants of Health: The Canadian Facts. New book published and available free online.

Posted on April 28th, 2010 by Anonymous.

Dennis Raphael and Juha Mikkonen have just released an exciting new contribution to the Canadian literature around social determinants of health.  This book is simple, concise, and action-oriented, and provides an excellent introduction to the evidence and to what to do to address social determinants.  The entire book is availble free at:

www.thecanadianfacts.org

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