Reports on Health and Poverty

Ontario Provincial Government Income Security Reform (2017)

• Income Security: A Roadmap For Change

Health Quality Ontario (2016)

• Income and Health: Opportunities to Achieve Health Equity in Ontario
• HQO Income and Health Infographic

Canadian Medical Association Town Hall Report (2013)

• Health Care in Canada: What Makes Us Sick?

Ontario Medical Review Series on Poverty and Health (2013)

• Part 1 – Why Poverty Is A Medical Problem
• Part 2 – Office Interventions for Poverty
• Part 3 – Child Poverty
• Part 4 – Racialized Groups
• Part 5 – Policy and Population

Addressing Poverty In Clinical Practice

Buchman S. Screening for Poverty in Family Practice. Can Fam Physician 2012; 58: 709.

McNeil R, Guirguis-Younger M, Dilley L, Turnbull J, Hwang S. Learning To Account for Social Determinants of Health Affecting Homeless Persons. Medical Education 2013; 47: 485-495.

Brcic V, Eberdt C, Kaczorowski J. Development of a Tool to Identify Poverty in a Family Practice Setting: A Pilot Study. International Journal of Family Medicine 2011; 1-7.

Childhood Poverty 

Beaune L, Leavens S, Muskat B, et al. Poverty and Pediatric Palliative Care: What Can We Do? Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care 2014; 10: 170-185.

Beaune L, Morinis J, Rapoport A, et al. Paediatric Palliative Care and the Social Determinants of Health: Mitigating the Impact of Urban Poverty in Children with Life-Limiting Illness. Paediatr Child Health 2013; 18(4): 181-183.

Conroy K, Sandel M, Zuckerman B. Poverty Grown Up: How Childhood Socioeconomic Status Impacts Adult Health. J Dev Behave Pediatr 2010; 31(2): 154-160.

Shah C, Kahan M, Krauser J. The Health of Children of Low-Income Families. CMAJ 1987; 137: 485-490.

Food Insecurity

Tarsal V, Cheng J, de Oliveira C, Dachner N, Gunders C, Kurdyak P. Association Between Household Food Insecurity and Annual Health Care Costs. CMAJ 2015; DOI:10.1503:1-8.

Loopstra R, Tarasuk V. Severity of Household Food Insecurity Is Sensitive To Change In Household Income and Employment Status Among Low-Income Families. The Journal of Nutrition 2013; 143: 1316-1323.

Homelessness and Housing Insecurity

Sterglopoulos V, Gozdzik A, Misir V, et al. Effectiveness of Housing First With Intensive Case Management in an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Homeless Adults with Mental Illness. PLoS One 2015; 10(7): e0130281, 1-21.

Guaranteed Annual Income

Forget E. The Town With No Poverty: The Health Effects of a Canadian Guaranteed Annual Income Field Experiment. Canadian Public Policy 2011; 37(3): 283-305.