PHM-Exch> Food for an overlooked thought URL CORRECTION, SORRY

[Claudio Schuftan]

look at ne URL below, please.

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Claudio Schuftan
<cschuftan at phmovement.org>wrote:

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> Human Rights Reader 237
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> *SOME REACTIONS TO WHAT WE HEAR (AND DO NOT HEAR) IN MANY A PUBLIC HEALTH
> CONFERENCE THESE DAYS.*
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> Am I tired of going to such conferences? Sort of.
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> It is just that, in them, we hear about so many things that need doing and
> have so long been overdue (…achieving the health MDGs, strengthening health
> delivery systems, organizing and empowering beneficiaries to demand changes
> ….and on-and-on…). One gets the impression that it is in times of crisis
> that we finally will bring to the fore what really needs doing and has long
> been overdue… But not even in such circumstance does the needed happen in
> our meetings of the learned; almost nothing substantial, beyond a passing
> comment, is heard about taking actions to address the ‘condition of
> poverty’, about disparity reduction, about addressing the widespread and
> numerous violations of the human right to health and to nutrition; nothing
> substantial and really deep-felt is heard about empowering claim holders
> --or worse: the concept of empowerment is repeatedly hijacked by making it
> mean giving women greater self-esteem, providing them with health education
> and nutritional knowledge and skills and/or ‘empowering’ them to better take
> care of their children.
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> The full text of this Reader can be found at
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http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/04/10/human-rights/some-reactions-to-what-we-hear-and-do-not-hear-in-many-a-public-health-conference-these-days/

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> Claudio
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