What determines your health? Genetics? Doctors? Drugs? But what about the neighborhood you live in? Your job? The amount of money you earn? These are called the social determinants of health, and they can expose more than you think.


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The Arts, Health & Seniors Program brings together seniors and professional artists to build social connections, develop artistic skill and creativity and facilitating their ability to age in place [sic]. (Produced by Lemongrass Media for Vancouver Coastal Health. Original music by Carl Craig)

Warriors Against Violence is a program that works towards ending family violence in the aboriginal community--by seeking the roots of violence through sharing and teaching, in order to bring healing and peace. WAV is based in Vancouver, Canada. For more information, contact Joyce Fossella (executive director) 604.255.3240

The Garden Project brings aboriginal people from Vancouver's downtown eastside to the UBC Farm, and teaches them how to farm, then to eat together, and to bring that food back home with them.

The BC Paraplegic Association (BCPA), working in partnership with G.F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre, provides a Peer Program tha tmatches Peer Associates with newly injured people to share support, advice, and a strong link back into the community.

MATTHEW GOOD, Vancouver-based musician & writer receives the 2008 Mental Health Voices Award from the Canadian Mental Health Association, and speaks about his own struggle with mental illness.