Table des matières

Foreword - Jack Layton
Preface
Note from the Publisher
PART I: DEFINING AND MEASURING POVERTY IN CANADA
Chapter One: Poverty and the Modern Welfare State
Chapter Two: Canadian Perspectives on Poverty
Chapter Three: Who Is Poor in Canada?
Chapter Four: Making Sense of Poverty: Social Inequality and Social Exclusion
PART II: THE EXPERIENCE OF POVERTY
Chapter Five: Pathways to Poverty
Chapter Six: The Lived Experience of Poverty
Chapter Seven: Interactions with the Social Assistance and Health Care Systems
PART III: POVERTY, HEALTH, AND QUALITY OF LIFE
Chapter Eight: Poverty and Health
Chapter Nine: Poverty and Health :Mechanisms and Pathways
Chapter Ten: Poverty and Quality of Life
PART IV: PUBLIC POLICY AND POVERTY
Chapter Eleven: The Politics of Poverty
Chapter Twelve: Canadian Public Policy and Poverty in International Perspective
Chapter Thirteen: Poverty and the Future of the Canadian Welfare State
Copyright Acknowledgments
Index

La description

Poverty and Policy in Canada provides a unique, interdisciplinary perspective on poverty and its importance to the health and quality of life of Canadians. This original volume considers a range of issues that will be of great interest to a variety of audiences – Social Work, Health Sciences, Sociology, Political Science, Policy Studies, Nursing, Education, Psychology, and the general public.

Central issues include the definitions of poverty and means of measuring it in wealthy, industrialized nations such as Canada; the causes of poverty – both situational and societal; the health and social implications of poverty for individuals, communities, and society as a whole; and means of addressing the incidence of poverty and improving its effects. Particular emphasis has been placed on the lived experiences of poverty throughout the book.

This new book has three, straightforward goals:

  • to provide a range of approaches for understanding poverty and its effects
  • to help readers understand the structural antecedents of poverty – that is, how society and its distribution of resources are the primary determinants of poverty
  • to provide realistic solutions to poverty