3 pages maximum due in class Tuesday, March 22, 2016: Please read, “Why are Canadians not being told the truth about disease?” and “Dealing with symptoms, not disease,” by Dennis Raphael. Then go to the Heart and Stroke Foundation website at http://tinyurl.com/y87y8re and then http://tinyurl.com/p5tc2nq to examine the ideas and resources available at these websites. Prepare an analytical essay that addresses the following questions: a) What are the causes of heart disease and stroke provided by the Heart and Stroke Foundation at their website? b) What social determinants of health lead to heart disease according to the Raphael and Farrell article? c) What are the pathways by which these social determinants of health come to cause heart disease? d) If you based heart disease prevention programs on the material provided by the Heart and Stroke Foundation what would these look like? What issues would you be ignoring? Discuss three reasons for the Heart and Stroke Foundation providing their explanations for heart disease rather than a social determinants explanation.

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