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• New Report Just Posted: Environmental Scan of School Readiness for Health: Definitions, Determinants, Indicators and Interventions.

  

  Using an ecological lens, the Environmental Scan of School Readiness for Health: Definitions, Determinants, Indicators and Interventions report explored school readiness from a health perspective. The many definitions of school ...

• "Canadian taxes not as high as you may think," Paul Kershaw's latest New Deal for Families editorial, is now online

  

  Paul Kershaw’s latest New Deal for Families Vancouver Sun editorial, entilted Canadian taxes not as high as you may think, is now available. To learn more about A New ...

• Congratulations Kim Schonert-Reichl and Vote for YWCA Connecting the Community Award

  

  MDI Principal Investigator Dr. Kim Schonert-Reichl has been nominated for a YWCA Women of Distinction award. In addition to this honour, Kim is able to win a $10,000 donation ...

• Latest B.C. business leader video now online

  

  Debi Hewson, CEO of Odlum Brown, explains why she believes business leaders must marry their corporate values with their family values. This is the second of five videos outlining why ...

• Now online: Presentations from the December 2011 Arthur M. Sackler Colloquia of the National Academy of Sciences

  

  Entitled Biological Embedding of Early Social Adversity: From Fruit Flies to Kindergarters, the Sackler Colloquia focused on socioeconomic position as the single most powerful determinant of health and development within ...