74. Some Pearls of Wisdom about Health care Financing
1. Equality in health means equal access for equal need. 2. Near-zero-priced public services for the very poor is an essential public policy towards equity. 3. Government intervention in the…
73. Money is Tinted by the Colour from where it comes from or Children are not an Issue of Charity, Ronald! They are a Matter of Justice
SCN News, No.25, Gva., 2002. This is one more post-mortem to the partially-called-off UNICEF McDonalds (public-private) partnership to which so many of us reacted. I hesitate a bit philosophising about…
72. Putting Equity and Human Rights in Health on the Agenda: The Role of NGOs
Introduction The background The concept of Human Rights in health and why it is used Experiences from some NGOs already using the Equity/Human Rights approach Practical ways for NGOs to…
71. ‘Elemental Watson’: The Health Sector Reform’s faulty logic
· Ministries of health around the world claim they have carried out a health sector reform; they argue that by doing so, they have decentralized and devolved the governance of…
70. Aiming at the Target: What’s Left for the Devil to Advocate?
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE SETTING OF GOALS AND TARGETS: HAVE THEY HELPED PROGRESS OR NOT? SCN News, No.22, Gva., July 2001. The big hype The outcome-process riddle Being realistic On…
69. Human Rights Readers
These have now been put separately in this website. You can click on HR Readers in the home page to access them. Claudio
68. Thinking Loud – On Statistics*
*: This is partly plagiarized, but I regrettably lost the reference. Although it is nothing terribly new, I think it is still worth bringing to a higher level of consciousness…
67. On Morality, Freedom, Choices, Justice and the Need for People’s Power
Variations on a theme by South African Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer. Inspired, plagiarized and paraphrased from her novel “A Sport of Nature”, Penguin Books, N.Y. 1988. I am not…
66. Aid and Reform in Africa: Lessons from Ten Case Studies, Final Report (Book Review)
World Bank, Aid Effectiveness Research, Development Research Group (released March 27, 2001).* *: The individual country case studies are not reviewed here. Welcome to a post-mortem of and a critical…
65. Human Rights or the Importance of Being Earnest: A Personal Account
The vast majority of humanity just has the right to see, to hear…and to remain silent (Eduardo Galeano) I am a true convert. I do believe the Human Rights approach…