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HPAP Ontario Letter

Letter to the Special Diet Review Committee on Poverty as a Medical Condition

Special Diet Expert Review Committee Director, Ontario Disability Support Program 80 Grosvenor St., 3rd floor Toronto, Ontario, M7A 1E9 June 5, 2006 Re: Evidence-based submissions for consideration by the expert committee I am writing on behalf of Health Providers Against Poverty to ask that “Poverty” be included as a medical condition in the Special Diets […]

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HPAP Ontario Letter

Letter To Minister of Social Services on Health Crisis Due To Poverty

Sept 8, 2005 A group of Ontario health care providers have written a letter to the Ontario Minister of Community and Social Services, Sandra Pupatello, to express their concern about the negative effects of poverty on their patients’ health after a decade of falling Welfare rates. Download a PDF version of the letter