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828. GLOBAL HEALTH IS IN THE MIDST OF A PROFOUND STRUCTURAL CRISIS. 827. HUMANITY HAS NEVER HAD SO MUCH POWER OVER ITSELF, AND THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT IT WILL USE IT WISELY. (Pope Leo XIV) 826. WHO TOLD YOU THERE’S JUSTICE IN THIS WORLD? THE STRONG ALWAYS WIN, AND THE WEAK GET SCREWED. (Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle) 825. PRIORITIES ARE DETERMINED BY POLITICS. YES, BUT BY WHOSE POLITICS? 824. WE KNOW THE OLD GLOBAL ORDER IS NOT COMING BACK. WE SHOULD NOT YEARN FOR IT.
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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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37. A. The Emerging Sustainable Development Paradigm: A Global Forum on the Cutting Edge of Progressive Thinking

September 21, 2016 admin

A development paradigm in need of replacement Windows of opportunity to take advantage of: (Normative aspects) The three pillars of an emerging sustainable development paradigm Getting from the old to…

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36. Nutritional Goals for the Mid-Nineties and beyond : A Call for Advocacy and Action

September 21, 2016 admin

CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com We live in an era of high expectations and poor outcomes. Resolving the problems of malnutrition in the world is an unpostponalble priority. It is as much…

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35. Some Reflections on How Nutrition Improves

September 21, 2016 admin

CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com This ACC/SCN synthesis of findings from the review of nutrition-relevant actions in ten countries recently carried out was reviewed in Adelaide in late September 1993. The key…

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34. Income Generation Activities for Women, the Ninth Essential Element of Primary Health Care? An Idea Whose Time has Come!

September 21, 2016 admin

The Kangaroo, Milano, Dec.1994. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com PHC praxis has gone through painful adaptations the world over since Alma Ata in 1978; most often not successfully. As a rule, since…

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33. The World Declaration on Nutrition and the 1992 International Conference on Nutrition (ICN) Plan of Action: The Cutting Edge of Conventional Thinking.*

September 21, 2016 admin

Do international conferences solve world problems? Do international declarations change the course of history? Do international conferences overlap in their purposes? Do international conferences bring out the best in the…

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32. Downsizing the Civil Service in Developing Countries: The Golden Handshake Option Revisited.

September 21, 2016 admin

Introduction: Setting the empirical and conceptual scene Why downsize? Why a golden handshake? Possible new approaches and their limitations: How much to downsize?: Determining the magnitude of the downsizing How…

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31. A Path for the New Millennium?: Government-Donor Partnership to Finance Primary Health Care in the Third World

September 21, 2016 admin

CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com PHC receives far more lip service than needed decentralized funds. PHC programs are overwhelmingly vertical, that is, planned and financed from the capital. Local health decision-makers have…

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30. Malnutrition and Income: Are We Being Misled? (A Dissenting View with a Confusing Literature)

September 21, 2016 admin

The issue of malnutrition and income as presented in the literature The thesis: (A counter-argument) What to do then? References Ecol. of Food and Nutrition, Vol.37(2), 1998. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com…

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