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836. POVERTY DEPRIVES BILLIONS OF THEIR RIGHT TO LIFE. 835. YOU CANNOT PROTECT NATURE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING THE ECONOMY THAT DESTROYS IT. (Alessandra Prampolini) 834. SOWING FOOD SOVEREIGNTY IS WHAT WILL ENSURE FOOD SECURITY. PERIOD. 833. FORMAL EQUALITY EXISTS ON PAPER; INEQUALITY EXISTS IN PEOPLE’S LIVES. (Esteban Gonzalez P.) 832. WE SPEND MORE TIME TRYING TO KEEP TRACK OF INFORMATION THAN USING IT. (Stephen Bezruchka)
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45. Actions and Activism in Fostering Genuine Grassroots Participation in Health and Nutrition

September 21, 2016 admin

CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com Effective action requires not just a feeling or an enthusiasm, but calls for a close rapport with the disgruntled so as to get them organized. (Robbins, 1985)…

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44. Northern-Led Development: Is it Selling Technical Fixes to Solve the Problems of Ill-Health and Malnutrition?

September 21, 2016 admin

The foreign aid scenario under a technical fix approach Endnote Tropical Doctor, Vol.30, Oct. 2000. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com Technology is inextricably linked to the society in which it is created…

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43. B. Micronutrient Deficiencies and Protein-Energy Malnutrition

September 21, 2016 admin

Letter to the Editor (on the same topic), The Lancet, Vol.351, June 13, 1998, p.1812. To the Editor, The authors of this letter represent three different continents (Latin America, Asia…

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43. A. The Different Challenges in Combating Micronutrient Deficiencies and Combating Protein Energy Malnutrition, or the Gap Between Nutrition Engineers and Nutrition Activists

September 21, 2016 admin

The Ecol. of Food and Nutr, Vol.38, No.6, 1999. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com The time has come for the nutrition community to more consciously take notice of how micronutrient interventions and…

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42. Equity In Health and Nutrition and the Globalization of the World’s Economy

September 21, 2016 admin

Dev. In Practice, Vol.89, No.5, Nov.1999. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com If the present trends continue, economic disparities between industrial and developing nations will move from inequitable to inhuman. (Gustave Speth, UNDP)…

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41. Book Review: Questioning the solution -The politics of primary health care and child survival with an in-depth critique of oral rehydration therapy

September 21, 2016 admin

. A Healthwrights Paperback, 1997, 207 pp., Health Wrights, 964 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA, , $30 airmail postage paid]. Hlth. Pol. and Planning, Vol.13, No.1,March 1998. CLAUDIO…

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40. Development in the New Millennium: Reflections of an Old Socialist

September 21, 2016 admin

Development, Vol.40, No.3, Sept.1997. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com I have been in the business of Third World Development -with a capital D- for the last 25 years; mostly in the areas…

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39. The Community Development Dilemma: when are Service Delivery, Capacity Building, Advocacy and Social Mobilisation really Empowering?

September 21, 2016 admin

Service delivery Capacity building Advocacy Social mobilisation Comm. Dev. J., Vol.31, No.3, July 1996. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com In service delivery, empowering means… In capacity building, empowering means… In advocacy, empowering…

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38. Foreign Aid: Giving Conditionalities a Good Name, or Conditionalities: the Launching of a South-South Counter-Offensive

September 21, 2016 admin

D+C, No.4, Bonn, 1998. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com If in all honesty, one acknowledges that there are world governments quite indisputably engaged: – in acts of repression and of exploitation of…

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37. B. Towards Operationalizing a Sustainable Development beyond Ethical Pronouncements: the Role of Civil Society and Networking

September 21, 2016 admin

The context The background What commitments are needed beyond ethics?: From the normative to the operational in sustainable development The primarily ethics-led process to sustainable development The primarily politically-led process…

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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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