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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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13. Low School Performance: Malnutrition or Cultural Deprivation?

September 20, 2016 admin

Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutricion, Vol. XXV, 1975. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com Abstract Malnutrition and cultural deprivation are not the ultimate causes of poor performance of school age children, although they are…

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12. Foreign Aid and its Role in Maintaining the Exploitation of the Agricultural Sector: Evidence from a Case Study in Africa

September 20, 2016 admin

Evidence of the exploitation: A preamble and five exhibits Sources, uses, and sectoral distribution of foreign aid: A preamble and four exhibits Putting it all together: A final balance sheet…

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11. “Household Purchasing-Power Deficit” – A More Operational Indicator to Express Malnutrition

September 20, 2016 admin

The indicator Uses and potential abuses of the proposed indicator Income generation Income redistribution Food consumption subsidies – Rationing system Conclusions References Ecol. of Food and Nutr., Vol.8, 1979. CLAUDIO…

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10. Survey on Attitudes to Nutrition Planning

September 19, 2016 admin

Food Policy, May 1984. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN AND WILLIAM BERTRAND schuftan@gmail.com The results of a worldwide survey of nutrition planning professionals attitudes towards nutrition policy are presented The survey was intended…

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9. Multidisciplinarity, Paradigms and Ideology in Development Work

September 19, 2016 admin

Setting the focus An attempt to define the concepts A development paradigm? Multidisciplinarity The role of conceptual frameworks Ideology Ethos and norms Conflicts in the terminology? Subjectivity of the sciences…

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8. The Role of Health and Nutrition in Development (Le Rôle de la Santé et de la Nutrition dans le Développement – El Papel de la Salud Y la Nutrición en El Desarrollo)

September 19, 2016 admin

Abstract – Résumé – Resumen The role of health and nutrition in development Capacity of the current system to alleviate hunger and malnutrition. Abstract – Résumé – Resumen IFDA Dossier…

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7. The Challenge of Feeding the People: Chile under Allende and Tanzania under Nyerere

September 19, 2016 admin

Abstract The conceptualization of malnutrition as a problem and its effects on nutrition policy formulation: A review of the literature The challenge of feeding the people: How it has been…

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6. Ethics And Ideology in the Battle Against Malnutrition

September 19, 2016 admin

How is our ethos formed? How is ideology formed? Liberals and radicals – a typology How relevant is our work? Are we politically naif? Are we afraid of speaking-up in…

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5. Viewpoint – Ethics, Ideology and Nutrition

September 19, 2016 admin

Ethos Ideology Liberals Radicals Political naivete? Social consciousness What can I do? Tool Establish links References Food Policy, Vol.7, No.2, May 1982. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com What drives nutritionists in their…

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4. Book Review: Susan George. A Fate Worse Than Debt: A radical new analysis of the Third World debt crisis (Or, the world financial crisis and the poor)

September 19, 2016 admin

Penguin Books. London. 1988 (A Pelican Book Paperback, Economics and Current Event Series). 290 pp. Also Food First Books. Grove Press, New York, 1988, 292 pp. CLAUDIO SCHUFTAN schuftan@gmail.com Did…

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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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