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

23. Egos/Alter Egos of the Main Actors in Development Projects (or Why Projects do not Work).

September 20, 2016 admin

Why projects don’t work The “expert” The consultancy’s management The donor agency officer The civil servant …Anyone wants to add a profile for the NGO worker…? P.S. Public Admin.

Essays

22. Looking Beyond the Doable: Resolutions for a New Development Decade

September 20, 2016 admin

Eur. J. of Polit. Econ, Vol.5, 1989. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com “The 90s” are one of those arbitrary time-locks we in development work like to use to make new resolutions to…

Essays

21. Development Nemesis: The era of empowerment

September 20, 2016 admin

Part One: Development and today’s reality Part Two: The actors and the future of development – The era of empowerment Epilogue Biographical note Published as “Beyond Maldevelopment Praxis in Africa”,…

Essays

20. The Child Survival Revolution: A Critique – or Health Still Only for Some by the Year 2000?

September 20, 2016 admin

Abstract Background The key questions Do people really have choices? A critical look at GOBI and the Child Survival Revolution The efficacy of GOBI The implementation of GOBI References Family…

Essays

19. Activism to Face World Hunger: Exploring New Needed Commitments

September 20, 2016 admin

The problem(s) of hunger and its (their) solutions Looking at ourselves and the other actors in the battle against hunger and malnutrition. (individuals, institutions and social groups) Organizing ourselves and…

Essays

18. Commentary – The Markets of Hunger: Questioning Food Aid (Non-Emergency/Long-Term)

September 20, 2016 admin

Introduction The politics of food aid: in the donor countries – in the recipient countries Not just any kind of aid Concluding remarks References Ecol. Of Food and Nutrition, Vol.23,…

Essays

17. The Political Economy of Ill Health and Malnutrition

September 20, 2016 admin

The situation: The macro and micro levels. The actors : institutions, social groups and individuals The methods and solutions Epilogue References CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com When focusing on the political economy…

Essays

16. Rosalia, a development poem

September 20, 2016 admin

ORLANDO LEON (Venezuelan) Translated by C. S. Rosalia Sanchez has 7 children, 12 diseases, 3 abortions and a shanty and garbage for a sociologist’s fruition. Rosalia is 27 years, 100…

Essays

15. Viewpoint: Nutrition Planning – What Relevance to Hunger?

September 20, 2016 admin

The general issues North-South conflict The response of the rich Aid and funding agencies The international bureaucracy The basic questions The planners and the people Research A third world perspective…

Essays

14. Hunger and Malnutrition: Outlook for Changes in the Third World*

September 20, 2016 admin

* For a World Food Assembly collective J. of Trop. Pediatrics, Vol.31, Dec.1985. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com The outlook for changes in the hunger and malnutrition issue in the Third World…

Posts pagination

1 … 57 58 59 … 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