After 20 years, the evidence supporting public stewardship of the non-state health sector in lower and middle income countries remains elusive. Claudio Schuftan, Jean Pierre Unger cschuftan@phmovement.org Abstract: The 2010…
Claudio Schuftan MD cschuftan@phmovement.org -‘In-the-dealings-of-Globalization’, its intricate connections are so patently disguised as to become almost invisible. Or worse, the deceptions are so brilliantly woven into its processes, that falling…
CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN cschuftan@phmovement.org Let’s face it, elites are not really interested in the development of rural infrastructures that can and will eventually lead to local and national food security. Expressing…
World Nutrition,Volume 2, Number 6, June 2011, Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association Claudio Schuftan, People’s Health Movement cschuftan@phmovement.org Biography posted at www.wphna.org Introduction Food riots now occur…
We all know it for long, don’t we? 1. The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element of so-called democratic…
Claudio Schuftan, Laura Turiano and Abhay Shukla, People’s Health Movement. cschuftan@phmovement.org; phm@turiano.org; abhayshukla1@gmail.com 1. The progressive weakening of public health systems, the growing privatisation of health care and the erosion…
Claudio Schuftan cschuftan@phmovement.org I would like to think that you -as me- often ask yourself what we could all do better to achieve greater equity in what we do given…
Promotion and Education, Vol.XV, No.3, 2008. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN, MD cschuftan@phmovement.org Abstract The topic of the above title has vividly interested the author for many years. Regretfully, the issues at stake…
. Aid money has rained on jungles, plains and deserts for 30 years; in the end only poverty has grown. (SID) 1. This Contribution departs from the premise that, on…
94. ETHICS AND IDEOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF HEALTH CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN, MD schuftan@gmail.com What drives health professionals in their daily work? Why did they choose health and not another field?…