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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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90. HOW DOES THE HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED APPROACH CHANGE DEVELOPMENT ETHICS AND DEVELOPMENT PRAXIS?

September 23, 2016 admin

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…

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89. A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH KEY PRINCIPLES AND ISSUES OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS-BASED FRAMEWORK AS APPLIED TO HEALTH.

September 23, 2016 admin

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…

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88. Our Role as Nutritionists in the Call by the World Bank to Put Nutrition at the Centre of Development

September 23, 2016 admin

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…

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87. Is the Gap in Policy Processes towards better Food Security and Nutrition Interventions Mainly a Gap Between Knowledge and Action?

September 23, 2016 admin

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…

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86B. Towards social and economic justice in health: Claiming the Right to Health as a means to achieve Health For All.

September 23, 2016 admin

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…

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86. A Primer for a National Action Plan to Operationalise the Right to Health Care (within the broader framework of the Right to Health). (*)

September 23, 2016 admin

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…

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85. A True Jewel in the Annals of Social Medicine: Young Allende’s Early Legacy

September 23, 2016 admin

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…

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84. Food and Nutrition: The Human Rights Perspective

September 23, 2016 admin

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…

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83. The Human Rights Discourse in Health

September 23, 2016 admin

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:…

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82. Book Review: Dignity Counts: A Guide to Using Budget Analysis to Advance Human Rights

September 23, 2016 admin

Centro de Analisis e Investigacion (FUNDAR), International Budget Project (IBP), International Human Rights Internship Program (IHRIP), ISBN 0-9797799-4-9, 83 pp, 2004. www.internationalbudget.org/themes/ESC/FullReport.pdf What a jewel of a short book. Here…

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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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