Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City. Schuftan@gmail.com To understand these challenges, one needs to describe the health services in the countries in the region from a historical perspective all the…
Claudio Schuftan MD, People’s Health Movement, Ho Chi Minh City. schuftan@gmail.com Abstract: The human rights (HR) discourse represents the return-to a greater focus and action on the basic causes of…
Claudio Schuftan MD, People’s Health Movement, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan@phmovement.org Social Medicine, Vol.2, No.2, 2007. Editorial An overview: This editorial starts with a tour de force that sets the…
Our colleagues at the World Bank (WB) are once again calling for nutrition to be mainstreamed in development work (World Bank 2006). While I could, once again, not disagree more…
The Ecology of Food and Nutrition, Vol.45, No.4, July-Aug, 2006. ABSTRACT Food and nutrition issues get little policy attention from decision-makers. The lack of action is not due to a…
Chapter in Health For and By the People, CETIM, Gva., Jan. 2007. Claudio Schuftan MD, People’s Health Movement, Vietnam, schuftan@gmail.com Abhay Shukla, MD, People’s Health Movement, India, abhayshukla1@gmail.com -We find…
Objectives for a national action plan Specific actions under the Action Plan Abstract The Indian People’s Health Movement mobilized constituencies in several Indian states to organize public hearings on the…
Social Medicine, Vol. , No. , 2006. Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City schuftan@gmail.com We here present a historical piece way ahead of its time. It comes to us from…
The Ecology of Food and Nutrition, Vol.44, No.3, 2005. ABSTRACT Governments have failed to successfully tackle malnutrition; are NGOs supposed to be different? This is not clear; few NGOs have…
Perspectives on Global Devpt. and Technology, Vol.4, No.2, 2005. A. Meaning of the human rights discourse in health B. How to strengthen the HR-based approach in our work in health:…