About this blog
Before I left Canada in 2013, I wrote a blog called ‘Health as if Everybody Counted’ for a provincially funded network called the Population Health Improvement Research Network. The title was inspired by the motto of Michael Connelly’s frequently insubordinate fictional homicide detective Harry Bosch: ‘Everybody counts or nobody counts’.
Now, I share Bosch’s insubordinate tendencies, but more importantly the egalitarianism of that credo seemed to me appropriate for a blog that focused on advances and setbacks in reducing health inequity. It occurred to me in June, 2018 that the time was right to resurrect that blog as a vehicle for commentary on these same issues, and a way of alerting interested people to new and exciting (or alarming) research findings and policy initiatives. Currently, the blog is available here, but I plan to copy posts to this site over time. I hope it’s of interest.
Readers of this blog are likely also to be interested in a similar but more internationally oriented blog, Policies for Equitable Action to Health, which is run by Italian Member of the European Parliament Daniele Dionisio and sometimes kindly reposts my materials.
Ted Schrecker on the political economy of health and illness 