Claudio Schuftan
Biographic Data
| ID | 456735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudio Schuftan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudio |
| FAMILY NAME | Schuftan |
| SIGNATURE | SCHUFTAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9858-9911 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Is There Such a Thing as a Fair and Human Rights-sensitive Process of Globalization
The role of ethics and ideology in our contribution to global health
What drives public health professionals in their daily work? Presumably it is the appeal of working, either locally or globally, to alleviate the suffering caused by (preventable) ill-health. This article explores the political awareness of health professionals, the political implications of their daily activities and suggests an enhanced role for them in the battle against preventable ill-health worldwide. The starting point for this article is …
Making nutrition and health more equitable within inequitable societies
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Commentary
Food and nutrition issues get little policy attention from decision-makers. The lack of action is not due to a lack of knowledge by the latter. Other gaps are at the root—gaps that denote a deliberate choice of not attending to food and nutrition matters. It is ultimately power relations that affect policy choices. It is here contended that policy processes can only be fully understood if analyzed politically. Consciousness raising and social mob…
Commentary. Food and Nutrition 2005
Governments have failed to tackle malnutrition successfully. Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) are supposed to behave differently. Few NGOs, however, have been able to affect the human rights violations behind the malnutrition suffered by millions of losers under globalization and NGOs should be working to reverse this process. Nevertheless, there is now recognition of the political roots of violations of the right to adequate food and nutritio…
Dignity Counts
Commentary
Commentary human rights based planning
Technical note
There is a lack of courses that adequately prepare nutritionists as socio‐political activists. This technical note describes a proposed 10‐week course, and an innovative course format. The course basically aims at preparing participants to assume more effectively future ethical and political responsibilities if they choose to become activists. The course methodology is primarily based on a series of student debates and role playing sessions, and …
Point
Sustainable development beyond ethical pronouncements
Only the beneficiaries and not the readers of this article are the ones who are going to make development sustainable. This, because greater participation of the civil society in sustainable development (SD) is a ‘political/power’ and not an ‘ethical/technical’ issue. Agreeing on the politics - beyond ethical pronouncements - is where the challenge lies. ‘Working with the poor as protagonists’ has yet to go from the normative to the operational a…
Equity in health and economic globalisation
This article proposes that equity in health is inseparable from social equity in its broadest sense. An equitable system allows the lowest income sectors to have access to an acceptable level of basic goods and services. Equity in health thus entails decreasing the differences in access to, and use of all health services. Globalization, on the other hand, means the process by which economic power is expanding and increasingly concentrated in the …
Malnutrition and income
This article takes issue with mainstream evidence in the literature purporting to show that increasing household income alone is not enough to do something significant towards combatting malnutrition in the world. It argues that poverty lines used as a threshold to surpass (in order to show measurable improvements in the nutritional status of vulnerable women and children in the short term) are too low. It further points out that the primary dete…
The Human Factor in Development A Review Essay
Viewpoint
The Organization of African States and UNICEF in 1992 jointly proposed that 1994-2003 be designated the Decade of the African Child. Although Africa would like to solve its children's problems on its own, especially in health and nutrition, it cannot do so alone. This paper identifies nine challenges and windows of opportunity on which consensus exists in Africa, and where donors can collaborate with moral, technical, and financial support to imp…
The cutting edge of conventional thinking”
Positive deviance in child nutrition
Estimating demand for food
Activism to face world hunger
Commentary
Long‐term non‐emergency food aid is rightly accused of many things: being based on a false logic; doing more harm than good; maintaining (and protecting) the status quo in Third World countries; undermining food autonomy; being a weapon for the rich countries; aiding development of hunger. There is no indication that policies regarding food aid — both in donor and recipient countries — are changing drastically despite evidence for the above claim…
Preparing food and nutrition/primary health care programs
Plans for national food and nutrition/primary health care programs (PHC) were prepared for both Cameroon and Liberia, in each case by methods that were applied and completed in a period of 7 to 10 weeks of full‐time work. Suggested guidelines to help identify the major problems in the areas of food, nutrition and PHC and their immediate and more basic determinants involved assessing existing documentation gathered from different ministries and lo…
The role of the PHW in famine relief
Survey on attitudes to nutrition planning
Ethics, ideology and nutrition
Household purchasing‐power deficit” A more operational indicator to express malnutrition
Since poverty is an important underlying cause of malnutrition, attacking poverty's determinants will be the only way to overcome malnutrition as a social problem. Expressing nutritional deficiencies as purchasing‐power deficits appears to be of greater operational relevance than the alternative of expressing malnutrition in terms of nutrient deficits, as is done classically. Consumer expenditure best defines poverty and therefore, it is postulat…
Nutrition planning—what relevance to hunger
Household purchasing‐power deficit” A more operational indicator to express malnutrition
Since poverty is an important underlying cause of malnutrition, attacking poverty's determinants will be the only way to overcome malnutrition as a social problem. Expressing nutritional deficiencies as purchasing‐power deficits appears to be of greater operational relevance than the alternative of expressing malnutrition in terms of nutrient deficits, as is done classically. Consumer expenditure best defines poverty and therefore, it is postulat…
Ethics, ideology and nutrition
Survey on attitudes to nutrition planning
Preparing food and nutrition/primary health care programs
Plans for national food and nutrition/primary health care programs (PHC) were prepared for both Cameroon and Liberia, in each case by methods that were applied and completed in a period of 7 to 10 weeks of full‐time work. Suggested guidelines to help identify the major problems in the areas of food, nutrition and PHC and their immediate and more basic determinants involved assessing existing documentation gathered from different ministries and lo…
The role of the PHW in famine relief
Commentary
Long‐term non‐emergency food aid is rightly accused of many things: being based on a false logic; doing more harm than good; maintaining (and protecting) the status quo in Third World countries; undermining food autonomy; being a weapon for the rich countries; aiding development of hunger. There is no indication that policies regarding food aid — both in donor and recipient countries — are changing drastically despite evidence for the above claim…
Activism to face world hunger
Positive deviance in child nutrition
Estimating demand for food
The cutting edge of conventional thinking”
Viewpoint
The Organization of African States and UNICEF in 1992 jointly proposed that 1994-2003 be designated the Decade of the African Child. Although Africa would like to solve its children's problems on its own, especially in health and nutrition, it cannot do so alone. This paper identifies nine challenges and windows of opportunity on which consensus exists in Africa, and where donors can collaborate with moral, technical, and financial support to imp…
Malnutrition and income
This article takes issue with mainstream evidence in the literature purporting to show that increasing household income alone is not enough to do something significant towards combatting malnutrition in the world. It argues that poverty lines used as a threshold to surpass (in order to show measurable improvements in the nutritional status of vulnerable women and children in the short term) are too low. It further points out that the primary dete…
The Human Factor in Development A Review Essay
Sustainable development beyond ethical pronouncements
Only the beneficiaries and not the readers of this article are the ones who are going to make development sustainable. This, because greater participation of the civil society in sustainable development (SD) is a ‘political/power’ and not an ‘ethical/technical’ issue. Agreeing on the politics - beyond ethical pronouncements - is where the challenge lies. ‘Working with the poor as protagonists’ has yet to go from the normative to the operational a…
Equity in health and economic globalisation
This article proposes that equity in health is inseparable from social equity in its broadest sense. An equitable system allows the lowest income sectors to have access to an acceptable level of basic goods and services. Equity in health thus entails decreasing the differences in access to, and use of all health services. Globalization, on the other hand, means the process by which economic power is expanding and increasingly concentrated in the …
Point
Technical note
There is a lack of courses that adequately prepare nutritionists as socio‐political activists. This technical note describes a proposed 10‐week course, and an innovative course format. The course basically aims at preparing participants to assume more effectively future ethical and political responsibilities if they choose to become activists. The course methodology is primarily based on a series of student debates and role playing sessions, and …
Commentary
Commentary human rights based planning
Commentary. Food and Nutrition 2005
Governments have failed to tackle malnutrition successfully. Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) are supposed to behave differently. Few NGOs, however, have been able to affect the human rights violations behind the malnutrition suffered by millions of losers under globalization and NGOs should be working to reverse this process. Nevertheless, there is now recognition of the political roots of violations of the right to adequate food and nutritio…
Dignity Counts
Commentary
Food and nutrition issues get little policy attention from decision-makers. The lack of action is not due to a lack of knowledge by the latter. Other gaps are at the root—gaps that denote a deliberate choice of not attending to food and nutrition matters. It is ultimately power relations that affect policy choices. It is here contended that policy processes can only be fully understood if analyzed politically. Consciousness raising and social mob…
The role of ethics and ideology in our contribution to global health
What drives public health professionals in their daily work? Presumably it is the appeal of working, either locally or globally, to alleviate the suffering caused by (preventable) ill-health. This article explores the political awareness of health professionals, the political implications of their daily activities and suggests an enhanced role for them in the battle against preventable ill-health worldwide. The starting point for this article is …
Making nutrition and health more equitable within inequitable societies
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Political science (19 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Development economics (10 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Malnutrition (8 works)