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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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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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29. Brave New World: A Political Pendulum in Search of its Balance

September 20, 2016 admin

South Letter, No. 16, winter 1992-93. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com 1. The recent political events in the world are not a reason for despair in the South. The bottom is not…

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28. The Household Entitlements Revolution or a Women-Centered Approach to Family Security

September 20, 2016 admin

Not as a surprise, this paper shows a mixed picture of what we have achieved (or not achieved) in the world in terms of nutrition outcomes. – Should we –the…

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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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