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Priming Action : 2007- 2008
(Phase II of Primer to Action)
Poverty
and Health: Risks for Chronic Disease
Priming Action Windsor Workshop - February 27th
Caboto
Club, 2175 Parent Avenue, Windsor
( 8:00 am to 12:00 p.m.)
Summary of the workshop
OPC (soon
to be Health Nexus) was Windsor on February 27 2008 presenting a
workshop Poverty and Health: Risks for Chronic Disease – Priming
Action Workshop in partnership with Go
For Health Winsor-Essex and the Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention
Alliance. This workshop was one of five workshops across Ontario
intended to introduce participants to the Primer to Action resource,
to familiarize participants with its use, and to gather participants’
feedback for the next revision of the Primer.
Looking at a storm-warning-laden
weather report on the 26th, we were starting to think that Primer
workshops induced snowstorms. To our surprise and relief the weather
cooperated and the promised 30cm of snow petered out after only
10cm and our 25 participants arrived without incident.
To begin participants were asked to place themselves
somewhere on a continuum from “I work with determinants of
health every day” to “I’m not really sure what the
determinants of health are”. Most participants put themselves
somewhere in the middle.
 During
OPC’s slide presentation participants
commented extensively on chronic disease and the determinants of
health in Windsor-Essex, as well as on existing slide content.
Next was an exercise in which participants mapped
their individual, organizational and collective power and influence
and discussed the results. Participants found race, gender, spirituality
and religion were areas of particular interest in this exercise.
The group self-selected into small groups to work
with the Primer. Topics of the small groups were education, food
security, housing, employment. Common themes from these groups:
 Income
is linked to everything
Raise
the minimum wage
Living
wage must be livable
Power
of working together, not in silos to have more influence
Inequities
in different parts of Windsor-Essex
 After
some summary discussion and some great suggestions from participants
on how to improve the Primer, we finished on time at noon so most
participants could attend an AGM.
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