Dennis Raphael
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Dennis Raphael
@dennisraphael.bsky.social

Canadian, university professor, Bertolt Brecht admirer, Raptors fan, potato cannon engineer, South Riverdale enthusiast/resident, socialist since grade 6. More info about me here: https://discover.academics.yorku.ca/Dennis.Raphael/about .. more

Dennis Raphael is a Canadian social scientist who has written extensively on the social inequalities in health in Canada and elsewhere.

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Public Health 31%
Political science 22%

Engels F (1883/1977) Dialectics of nature. In: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Collected works, Volume 25. Moscow: International Publishers.
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Promoting Health Equity in an Era of Growing Contradictions Between Capital Accumulation and Social Reproduction in Capitalist Economies
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Promoting Health Equity in an Era of Growing Contradictions Between Capital Accumulation and Social Reproduction in Capitalist Economies - Dennis Raphael, Toba Bryant, Rozhin Amin, 2025
Background: Despite a robust literature on the importance of promoting health equity, actual progress in doing so is flagging and this is especially the case in...
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CANADA HAS NOT ACHIEVED ANY EMISSION REDUCTIONS SINCE 1990. Canadian banks are among the largest global fossil fuels financers. (Surprise, surprise - this is what happens when one elects a neoliberal capitalist wanker banker).

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Ten million Canadians live in food-insecure households. The federal budget doesn’t help them
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Food insecurity is worse and the budget offers no solutions
Canada’s food insecurity has hit record levels, yet the budget offers only symbolic measures instead of strengthening income supports.
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For the first time in 25 years, I have received a response from the NDP to something I sent them. It was from the Avi Lewis campaign. #ndp

Studies have shown that cats have a calming, stress-reducing impact on our health, and that cat owners are up to 30% less likely to experience heart diseases. In fact, their stress-reducing ways are so powerful that simply watching videos of cats can significantly elevate our mood. I

Canadian government spending on social protection falls:
Old Age Security, family benefits, disability payments and unemployment benefits, and initiatives to address social exclusion, i.e., marginalization of individuals/groups from participation in society.
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The Daily — Government spending by function, 2024
Spending by the consolidated Canadian general government—that is, all levels of government including the federal, provincial, territorial, local and other government entities combined—reached a new hi...
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York Professor Dennis Raphael and Khirisha Suthakaran, an undergraduate student in health studies, explore how policy "taboos" in Canada contribute to poorer health outcomes
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