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[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 253



*ALTHOUGH ETHICS IS THE PROPER LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE; HUMAN RIGHTS IS THE
PROPER LANGUAGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH.*   *(part two of three)*

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4. The primary health care (PHC) perspective in right to health (RTH) work

For long, PHC has been misunderstood; it has sunk to its lowest when
governed by ‘The Rule of 3’: 3 questions, 3exams, prescription for 3
medicines, in 3 minutes, or when ‘sustainable misery packages’ have been
offered to people who live in poverty while the non-poor are given an array
of choices.


*5. Privatization from the human rights perspective *

The private sector is like a tiger: it needs to be put in a cage (not too
small, not too big). We need it to do what it does best --which is *not* the
provision of health care since it does it expensively and dishonestly.

Privatization of health care is a class policy, because it benefits high
income groups at the expense of the popular classes.


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Claudio
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