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Front cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword to the Third Edition -- Foreword to the Second Edition -- Foreword to the First Edition -- Preface -- Part 1 Defining and Measuring Poverty in Canada -- Chapter 1 Poverty and the Canadian Welfare State -- Chapter 2 Canadian Perspectives on Poverty -- Chapter 3 Who Is Poor in Canada? -- Chapter 4 Making Sense of Poverty -- Part 2 The Experience of Poverty -- Chapter 5 Pathways to Poverty -- Chapter 6 The Lived Experience of Poverty -- Chapter 7 Interactions with the Social Service and Health Care Systems -- Part 3 Poverty, Health, and Quality of Life -- Chapter 8 Poverty and Health -- Chapter 9 Poverty and Health -- Chapter 10 Poverty and Quality of Life -- Part 4 Politics, Public Policy, and Poverty -- Chapter 11 The Politics of Poverty -- Chapter 12 Anti-Poverty Strategies and Programs -- Chapter 13 Canadian Public Policy and Poverty in International Perspective -- Chapter 14 Poverty and the Future of the Canadian Welfare State -- Epilogue: Poverty in Canada and the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Copyright Acknowledgements -- Index -- Back cover.

Front Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Part 2 -- Anglo-Saxon Nations: Multiculturalism Put to the Test? -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Continental Nations: Clash of Cultures? -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Nordic Nations: Can the State Provide Equity for All? -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Part 3 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Author Biographies -- Copyright Acknowledgements -- Index -- Back Cover.

Public policy creates health inequalities among Canadians by inequitably distributing the social determinants of health (SDOH). Political decisions by authorities bring about these public policies, yet to date there has been little resistance to these decisions by the Canadian public. This article proposes a research agenda for investigating why this might be the case by considering a) Canada's identification as a liberal welfare state; b) the relative power and influence of the corporate and business sector, labour, and civil society in shaping SDOH-related public policy-making; c) how population health researchers and public health practitioners understand health inequalities and their role in reducing them; and d) the public's understanding of SDOH and public policy-making.

In this article key aspects of a political economy approach to addressing children's health are identified. These aspects include a concern with how power and influence of various societal sectors come to shape the social determinants of children's health through the creation of specific forms of public policy. These public policies affect children's health through two primary pathways: shaping the social determinants of parents' health and shaping specific social determinants of children's health. These approaches cluster such that a worlds of welfare states approach can illuminate specific aspects of Canada's approach to creating public policies that shape children's health. Implications for promoting children's health that derive from a political economy approach are presented.

The health of Canada's children when placed in comparative perspective with other wealthy developed nations is mediocre at best. Much of this has to do with the social determinants of children's health (SDCH) in Canada being of generally lower quality and more inequitably distributed than is the case in most other wealthy developed nations. The SDCH are of two kinds: (a) those to which their parents are exposed, and (b) those specifically related to societal support for early child development. In both cases Canada's support of the SDCH through the making of health promoting public policy is lacking. Much of this has to do with the political ideology of ruling governments consistent with Canada being identified as a liberal welfare state where intervention in the unbridled operation of the market system is frowned upon. There are means of improving the situation. These involve a wide range of activities from more responsive clinical practice through to advocacy and political action.

Health inequalities are an outcome of social inequalities and both result from the workings of the economic system, a governmental apparatus that maintains or reinforces these inequalities, and a public discourse that justifies these inequalities. The outcome of these processes is a skewed distribution of exposures among the population to various social (societal) determinants of health. Modifying these societal processes—thereby improving the social determinants of health—requires developing and implementing public policies consistent with reducing these inequalities. Two viewpoints dominate discussions of how this might be brought about: a) professionally-oriented rational or knowledge-based approaches and b) social and political movement-based materialist or political economy-oriented approaches. In political economies dominated by business interests such as those seen in Canada, the US, and UK, adopting a social and political movement-based approach is the most appropriate avenue of action. How this might be accomplished requires critical analysis of the political, economic, and social forces that lead jurisdictions to implement policies that either support or resist equity-oriented public policy innovations.

Front cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction to the Politics of Health Series -- Preface -- Chapter 1 How the Politics of the Welfare State Shapes Our Health -- Chapter 2 The Canadian Welfare State and Public Policy -- Chapter 3 The Canadian Welfare State and the Health of Canadians -- Chapter 4 Promoting the Health of Canadians within the Liberal Welfare State -- Chapter 5 Moving toward the Future -- Epilogue: The Social Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Index -- Back cover.