People's Health Radio

Social and structural determinants of health in the Philippines

September 1, 2011
| Martha and Aiyanas, recently returned from 6 weeks in the Philippines, reflect on how the people's movement is addressing both the social and structural determinants of health.

59:33 minutes (54.52 MB)
People's Health Radio

Social and structural determinants of health: A global perspective

September 15, 2011
| The inadequacies of the WHO approach to social determinants of health and the need to look to socialist models of health care are discussed.

57:12 minutes (52.38 MB)
People's Health Radio

Canada's mass incarceration agenda

November 14, 2011
| PHR looks at the mass incarceration agenda in Canada -- from the "ominous" crime bill, to prison construction and privatization in B.C. to the targeting of poor people who use illicit drugs.

58:56 minutes (53.96 MB)
People's Health Radio

Charity vs. Justice: Can the charity industry save us from capitalism?

December 22, 2011
| A discussion of charity vs. justice looking at both international 'philanthrocapitalism' and the charity industry in Canada.

57:52 minutes (52.98 MB)
People's Health Radio

Housing, homelessness and health

January 20, 2012
| People's Health Radio takes a look at the health impacts of inadequate housing with a particular focus on people in extremely marginalized housing such as shelters and hotels.

60:55 minutes (55.77 MB)
People's Health Radio

Drug prohibition and health

February 3, 2012
| People's Health Radio looks at the current prohibition of illicit drugs, its impact on health and alternative approaches to drugs and drug use.

62:05 minutes (56.84 MB)
People's Health Radio

Women's health and women's liberation -- IWD special

March 26, 2012
| To mark International Women's Day 2012, People's Health Radio looks at the links between working class women's struggles for liberation and women's health.

56:13 minutes (51.47 MB)
People's Health Radio

Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to Occupied Palestine: Encroachment, resistance and criminalization

April 30, 2012
| PHR checks in with the anti-gentrification struggle in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and examines the health consequences of mass incarceration and political imprisonment of peoples in struggle.

53:25 minutes (48.91 MB)