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842. PUBLIC HEALTH HAS LOST POLITICAL INFLUENCE, BECAUSE OF A MISMATCH BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE, MORAL AUTHORITY AND THE FORMS OF POWER THAT CURRENTLY SHAPE SOCIETY. (Jonathan Heller) 841. FOR ME, SPIRITUALITY IS CLOSER TO PHILOSOPHY THAN TO RELIGION. THIS, SINCE IT IS A QUESTION OF ETHICS, NOT OF DOGMA. (Isabel Allende, Daughter of Fortune) 840. THE CASE OF ‘CHOICE-LESS DEMOCRACIES’ (Saeed Husaini) 839. THE CHALLENGE OF THE DAY IS NOT ABOUT GETTING INVOLVED IN MORE MODELS FOR THE WORLD; THE NEED IS FOR A NEW MODEL ALTOGETHER. (Kofi Annan) 838. THE HYPOCRITICAL NATURE OF DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION. (cooperation…?)
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109. Key framing questions to guide the UN Post-2015 High Level Panel’s work and consultation.

October 1, 2016 admin

Suggested responses by Claudio Schuftan in a personal capacity, People’s Health Movement, Vietnam. (2013) cschuftan@phmovement.org I. Qs on lessons learned and context: 1. What have the MDGs achieved? What lessons…

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108. CURRENT HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES ON INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION STILL TO BE CHAMPIONED or FOUR HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES IN SEARCH OF A SOLUTION.

October 1, 2016 admin

Claudio, Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan@phmovement.org IN THE SPIRIT OF THE PARIS DECLARATION ON DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION, THE IMPROVEMENT OF FOREIGN AID IS NOT SEEN PURELY AS A TECHNICAL MATTER…

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107. Two contemporary challenges: Corporate control over food and nutrition and the absence of a focus on the social determinants of nutrition.

October 1, 2016 admin

Claudio Schuftan and Radha Holla cschuftan@phmovement.org A focus on the social determinants of nutrition (including its political determinants) is imperative to revitalize global nutrition policies and embed them well within…

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106. The role of ethics and ideology in our contribution to global health

October 1, 2016 admin

Claudio Schuftan, Peoples Health Movement. cschuftan@phmovement.org Abstract What drives public health professionals in their daily work? Presumably it is the appeal of working, either locally or globally, to alleviate the…

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105. Right to bottle-feeding in poor countries?: What is really at stake?

October 1, 2016 admin

March 5th, 2009 | hhrjournal | Perspectives | Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City. cschuftan@phmovement.org The article by Dr. Agnès Binagwaho in Health and Human Rights, Volume 10, Number 1,…

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104. The right to nutrition: Strategies to hold multilateral and bilateral donors accountable.

October 1, 2016 admin

Claudio Schuftan, Urban Jonsson Most United Nations and bilateral donor agencies are not applying the human rights-based framework. This, despite the fact that this is their mandate (for the UN…

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103. Poverty and the violation of human rights: A proposed conceptual framework.

October 1, 2016 admin

Claudio Schuftan, Ho Chi Minh City cschuftan@phmovement.org Abstract The paper proposes a conceptual framework that links the determinants of poverty and those of human rights violations. It sees both as…

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102. THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION’S “PUBLIC STEWARDSHIP OF PRIVATE PROVIDERS IN MIXED HEALTH SYSTEMS”: A POINT-BY-POINT CRITIQUE.

October 1, 2016 admin

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…

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101. GLOBALIZATION, HEALTH SECTOR REFORM AND THE HUMAN RIGHT TO HEALTH: IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURE HEALTH POLICY.

October 1, 2016 admin

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…

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100. GOVERNMENTS IN TIMES OF CRISIS: NEGLECTING TO UPHOLD THE HUMAN RIGHT TO NUTRITION?

October 1, 2016 admin

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…

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CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN MD
Saigon, Vietnam
Email: cschuftan@phmovement.org
Claudio Schuftan is a freelance public health consultant in Ho Chi Minh City and an ex-adjunct associate professor in the Department of International Health of the Tulane School of Public Health, USA. He is a Chilean national and got his M.D. degree in his native country.

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