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Health and Wealth
How Social and Economic Factors Affect Our Well-Being
This book looks at the well-known link between social equality and the health and well-being of a country’s population, with a Canadian perspective and using Canadian data. As of 1999, when the book was written, the trend towards greater inequality within Canada was evident, a trend which author Moncia Townson felt would lead to a decline in Canadians’ overall health and well-being. The book deals in turn with the overall health of Canadians, inequalities in level of health arising from social and economic factors, and with the policy implications of this discussion.
Contributors
Monica Townson
MONICA TOWNSON is an independent economic consultant working in the field of social policy. She has been a consultant to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, served on the Pension Commission of Ontario for eleven years and was a member of the Canada Pension Plan Advisory Board. She chaired the Ontario Fair Tax Commission which reported in 1993 after a three year review of the tax system. She is the author of many books and studies and a frequent guest on television and radio.
