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Essays on Nutrition, Health Care, Human Rights and Development

South-East and East Asia, not including China 

Essays on Nutrition, Health Care, Human Rights and Development

Copies of any of the following papers can be requested free of charge from: 
Dr.Claudio Schuftan, IPO Box 369, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Fax: 84 4 822 2250. Email: aviva@netnam.vn 
by just quoting the respective number(s).
Papers are available electronically. Please send your name, affiliation and postal address. 
 

  1. The Causes of Hunger and Malnutrition: Macro and Micro Determinants.

  2. Technical, Ethical and Ideological Responsibilities in Nutrition.

  3. De Westernizing Health Planning and Health Care Delivery: A Political Perspective

  4. Preparing Food and Nutrition/Primary Health Care Programs: Experiences from Cameroon and Liberia.

  5. Viewpoint: Ethics, Ideology and Nutrition.

  6. Ethics and Ideology in the Battle Against Malnutrition.

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

  8. The Role of Health and Nutrition in Development.

  9. Multidisciplinarity, Paradigms and Ideology in National Development Work.

  10. Survey on Attitudes towards Nutrition Planning.

  11. Household Purchasing Power Deficit: A more Operational Indicator to Express Malnutrition.

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

  13. Low School Performance: Malnutrition or Cultural Deprivation?

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

  15. Nutrition Planning: What Relevance to Hunger?

  16. Rosalia (A poem by Orlando Leon).

  17. The Political Economy of Ill-Health and Malnutrition.

  18. The Markets of Hunger: Questioning (non emergency/long term) Food Aid.

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

  20. The Child Survival Revolution: A Revolution that isn't? or Health Still Only for Some by the Year 2000.

  21. DEVELOPMENT NEMESIS: (1) Development and Today's Reality. (2) The Actors and the Future of Development: The Era of Empowerment.

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

  23. Institution Building: The Achilles Heel of Development Projects. (or Why Projects Don't Work...)

  24. Positive Deviance in Child Nutrition: A Critique.

  25. The Project Approach in Development Assistance.

  26. Triage Management in Third World Ministries.

  27. On Behalf of the African Child: Challenges and Windows of Opportunity for the Donor Community.

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

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

  30. Malnutrition and Income: Are We Being Misled? (A dissenting view).

  31. A Path for the 90's?: Government-Donor Partnership to Finance Primary Health Care in the Third World.

  32. Notes on Civil Service Downsizing: The Golden Handshake Option Revisited.

  33. The World Declaration on Nutrition and the 1992 International Conference on Nutrition (ICN) Plan of Action: The Cutting Edge of Conventional Thinking.

  34. Income Generation Activities for Women: The 9th Essential Element of PHC?: An Idea Whose Time has Come.

  35. Some Reflections on the ACC/SCN's 'How Nutrition Improves'.

  36. Nutritional Goals for the Mid-90s: A Call for Advocacy and Action.

  37. The Emerging Sustainable Development Paradigm: A Global Forum on the Cutting Edge of Progressive Thinking.
    37A. Towards Operationalizing a Sustainable Development Beyond Ethical Pronouncements: The Role of Civil Society and Networking

  38. Giving Conditionalities a Good Name, or Conditionalities: The Launching of a Counter-Offensive.

  39. The Community Development Dilemma: What is really Empowering?

  40. Development in the mid-1990s: Reflections of an Old Socialist.

  41. Questioning the Solution: The Politics of Primary Health Care and Child Survival (book review).

  42. Equity in Health and the Globalization of the World's Economy.

  43. The Different Challenges in Combating Micronutrient Deficiencies and Combating Protein-Energy Malnutrition or the Difference between Nutrition Engineers and Nutrition Activists.

  44. Northern-led Development: Is it Selling Technical Fixes to Solve the Problems of Ill-health and Malnutrition?

  45. Actions and Activism in Fostering Genuine Grassroots Participation in Health and Nutrition.

  46. Health, Nutrition and Sustainable Development.

  47. Reemphasizing the Need to Tackle the Causes of Poverty in the Battle Against Ill-health and Malnutrition.

  48. Health Sector Reform Measures: Are they Working? ... And Where Do We Go from Here?

  49. On Development, the Real World, Power Games and the Ugly Faces of Greed: Variations on a Theme by Peter Hoeg.

  50. So What... (In Search of the "Big Picture" in Development).

  51. Can Significantly Greater Equity be Achieved Through Targeting?: An Essay on Poverty, Equity and Targeting in Health and Nutrition.

  52. Globalization, or the Fable of the Mongoose and the Snake.

  53. Elements for a Nutrition Activism Course and Curriculum. (53a. Also adapted for a Human Rights activists course).

  54. The Role of Human Rights in Politicizing Development Ethics, Development Assistance and Development Praxis.

  55. A Letter to the Student Erica who is Planning to Specialize in International Nutrition.

  56. Book Review: The Lugano Report: On Preserving Capitalism in the 21st Century, by Susan George.

  57. Food for Finding Where your Thoughts are: Variations on a Theme by Isabel Allende.

  58. Remembering (a poem by Eduardo Galeano)

  59. IMCI: In Need of a Greater Community-centered Focus and Mandate.

  60. Human Rights Based Planning: The New Approach.

  61. On Health Sector Reform, Health and Poverty and Other Herbs.

  62. What Does the New UN Human Rights Approach Bring to the Struggle of the Poor?

  63. Health a Precious Asset, But not a New Potentially Powerful Exit Route from Poverty.

  64. Book Review: The World Bank’s World Development Report 2000/2001 or the Trivialization of the Concept of “Empowerment”.

  65. Human Rights or the Importance of Being Earnest: A Personal Account.

  66. Book Review: Aid and Reform in Africa: Lessons from Ten Case Studies, Final Report, Development Research Group, The World Bank.

  67. On Morality, Freedom, Choices, Justice and the Need for People’s Power: Variations on a Theme by Nadine Gordimer.

  68. On Statistics.

  69. A Reader in Human Rights.

  70. Aiming at the Target: What’s Left for the Devil to Advocate? (Some thoughts on the setting of goals and targets in nutrition: Have they helped progress or not?

  71. Elemental Watson: The Health Sector Reform’s Faulty Logic.

  72. Putting Equity and Human Rights in Health on the Agenda: The Role of NGOs.

  73. Money is Tinted by the Color From Where it Comes From, or Children are not an Issue of Charity, Ronald! They are a Matter of Justice.

 

Copies of any of the above papers can be requested free of charge from: 
Dr.Claudio Schuftan, IPO Box 369, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Fax: 84 4 822 2250. Email: aviva@netnam.vn 
by just quoting the respective number(s).
Papers are available electronically. Please send your name, affiliation and postal address. 
 


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