53. Elements for a Nutrition Activism Course and Curriculum
Unfinished draft CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com Giving graduate students of nutrition a chance to practice activism skills vis a vis the…
52. Neoliberal Global Restructuring, or the Fable of the Mongoose and the Snake (Fableous food for thought)
Globalization and its negative consequences A dearth of workable solutions? The Equity/Equality approach The Human Rights approach Bolder steps are…
51. Can Significantly Greater Equity be Achieved through Targeting?: An Essay on Poverty, Equity and Targeting in Health and Nutrition. (Food for a targetter’s thought)
Poverty, equity and social justice Equity and health for all Equity, structural adjustment and safety nets for the poor Who…
50. So What… in Search of the ‘Big Picture’ in Development (Food for a depressive thought)
CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com After reading an exceptionally long list of emails I received the other night I fell into a…
49. On Development, the Real World, Power Games and the Ugly Faces of Greed (Food for thought about a state of mind).
Variations on a theme by the Danish writer Peter Hoeg. Inspired, extracted (plagiarized) and paraphrased from his short story “Reflections…
48. Health Sector Reform Measures: Are they Working?… And where do we go from here?
J. of Health and Population in Developing Countries, Vol.3, No.2, Spring, 2002. Claudio Schuftan Goran Dahlgren Saigon, Vietnam Shortcomings of…
47. New Perspectives, Old Risks: our Need to Change and to Reconceptualize or Reemphasizing the Need to Tackle the Causes of Poverty in the Battle against Ill-Health and Malnutrition
CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com When pushed to its limits, nature fights back by dying. When pushed to its limits, how should…
46. Health, Nutrition and Sustainable Development.
The need for a more critical and visionary attitude Endnote Postscript References Letter to the Editor in Public Hlth. Nutr.,…
45. Actions and Activism in Fostering Genuine Grassroots Participation in Health and Nutrition
CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com Effective action requires not just a feeling or an enthusiasm, but calls for a close rapport with…
44. Northern-Led Development: Is it Selling Technical Fixes to Solve the Problems of Ill-Health and Malnutrition?
The foreign aid scenario under a technical fix approach Endnote Tropical Doctor, Vol.30, Oct. 2000. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com Technology is…