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[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 254



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




Together with others, I believe in a few MDG Iron Laws: MDGs suffer from
donor over-influence, technical over-emphasis, inattention to action on
national social, political and economic inequities, and a lack of systemic
financial commitments. The health-specific goals perpetuate a privileging of
communicable diseases and encourage quick-fix investments and technical
approaches; they reinforce an emphasis on health as an average outcome
across an undifferentiated population; they fail to address adequately the
social determinants of health (SDH), raising questions about the
sustainability of their achievement.  Therefore, conditions of extreme
vulnerability, social exclusion, and health inequalities will remain
entrenched even if the MDGs are met.

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Claudio
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