Skip to content
Claudioschuftan
  • ABOUT
  • INTRODUCTION AND TABLE OF CONTENT
  • ESSAYS
  • BLOGS
  • VIDEOS
  • Human Rights Readers
Top Tags
  • human rights activism
  • human rights and religion
  • human rights and globalization
  • human rights and history
  • human rights and participation
  • Human rights and universal health coverage
  • WHO and privatization

Latest Post

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…?)
Essays

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)…

Essays

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…

Essays

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…

Essays

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…

Essays

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…

Essays

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…

Essays

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…

Essays

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…

Essays

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…

Essays

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…

Posts pagination

1 … 55 56 57 … 103
Search On Site
Videos

You missed

Hr Readers

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)

November 7, 2026 admin
Hr Readers

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)

November 1, 2026 admin
Hr Readers

840. THE CASE OF ‘CHOICE-LESS DEMOCRACIES’ (Saeed Husaini)

October 25, 2026 admin
Hr Readers

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)

October 18, 2026 admin
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.

LIKE US ON FACEBOOK

QUICK LINK

  • HOME
  • BLOG
  • ABOUT
  • ESSAYS
  • VIDEOS
Bodega Viet Nam & Human Rights
CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN MD Saigon, Vietnam
Email: cschuftan@phmovement.org
Claudioschuftan

Proudly powered by WordPress | Theme: News Way by Themeansar.

  • HR Readers
  • Videos
  • Blogs
  • Essays
  • Events