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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 254</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">ALTHOUGH ETHICS IS THE PROPER LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE; HUMAN
RIGHTS IS THE PROPER LANGUAGE OF PUBLIC HEALTH.</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">(part three
of three)</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p>

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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">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.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> 
</span>Therefore, conditions of extreme vulnerability, social exclusion, and
health inequalities will remain entrenched even if the MDGs are met.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;
mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">To read the full Reader, go to:</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wp.me/plAxa-1gc">http://wp.me/plAxa-1gc</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Claudio</div>