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Letter of the day: A champion of poverty reduction
WAYNE.GLOWACKI / Winnipeg Free Press Archives Joel Kettner�s contract as Manitoba�s chief medical health officer has been terminated.
The public was not told why the Selinger government precipitously terminated the contract of its chief provincial officer of health (Province terminates contract of chief public health officer, Jan. 26, 2012). But in doing so, it has lost in Dr. Joel Kettner, a knowledgeable and pragmatic public-health professional committed to disease prevention and health promotion.
In his report on the health status of Manitobans in 2010, he repeatedly identified poverty and economic inequality as powerful determinants of disease and provided many recommendations to more effectively serve the poor as a high-risk group. In addition, he championed poverty reduction as a disease prevention strategy and argued for the use of a broad range of policy instruments to implement this strategy, including taxation and minimum-wage policy.
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Unfortunately, a personal income taxation system that has become less progressive reinforces high rates of poverty and economic inequality, and a Manitoban who works full time at minimum wage still lives in poverty. Kettner will be missed.
SID FRANKEL
Winnipeg
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition January 27, 2012 A11
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