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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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51. Can Significantly Greater Equity be Achieved through Targeting?: An Essay on Poverty, Equity and Targeting in Health and Nutrition. (Food for a targetter’s thought)

September 22, 2016 admin

Poverty, equity and social justice Equity and health for all Equity, structural adjustment and safety nets for the poor Who are the poor and how do we find them? Equity…

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50. So What… in Search of the ‘Big Picture’ in Development (Food for a depressive thought)

September 21, 2016 admin

CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com After reading an exceptionally long list of emails I received the other night I fell into a pessimistic streak. I was thinking how the road to heaven…

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49. On Development, the Real World, Power Games and the Ugly Faces of Greed (Food for thought about a state of mind).

September 21, 2016 admin

Variations on a theme by the Danish writer Peter Hoeg. Inspired, extracted (plagiarized) and paraphrased from his short story “Reflections of a young man in balance”, in Tales of the…

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48. Health Sector Reform Measures: Are they Working?… And where do we go from here?

September 21, 2016 admin

J. of Health and Population in Developing Countries, Vol.3, No.2, Spring, 2002. Claudio Schuftan Goran Dahlgren Saigon, Vietnam Shortcomings of HSRs So what would be more effective and sustainable? Equity…

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47. New Perspectives, Old Risks: our Need to Change and to Reconceptualize or Reemphasizing the Need to Tackle the Causes of Poverty in the Battle against Ill-Health and Malnutrition

September 21, 2016 admin

CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com When pushed to its limits, nature fights back by dying. When pushed to its limits, how should society fight back? (Simonis, U., 1989) Our work in development…

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46. Health, Nutrition and Sustainable Development.

September 21, 2016 admin

The need for a more critical and visionary attitude Endnote Postscript References Letter to the Editor in Public Hlth. Nutr., Vol.2, No.2, 1999. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com At the closing of…

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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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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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