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This is quite true. However, it is not just 'disease/health categories'( sanitation, nutrition ....) as defined by the self-styled world authorities in global/public health. Poverty has in each local and historical situation its own well-defined and unmistaken phenomenology ( e.g. urban sanitation problems in African mega-cities have a different face from lacking water for sanitation in the Sahara....). The CATEGORIZATION in technical notions by health authorities on all levels together with the "technical consensus" it achieves has a negative impact on the understanding of HEALTH AS HUMAN RIGHT, and becomes quickly a quantifiable and colorless entity to deal with by health bureaucrats. <br>We committed to PEOPLE's health need to stand away from this trap.<br><br>JOACHIM KREYSLER MD., MPH.,
EPIDEMIOLOGIST/NUTRITIONIST/ TROPICAL MEDICINE SPECIALIST, ex WHO and IFRC staff.<br> 6 rue de la Dôle, CH 1203 GENEVE, SWITZERLAND
MOB: 0041794045779, HOME: 0041223400851<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 10:59:12 -0700<br>From: cschuftan@phmovement.org<br>To: phm-exchange@phm.phmovement.org<br>Subject: PHM-Exch> IMAXI and 'silos' (2)<br><br> From: <a href="mailto:kavbha@gmail.com">kavbha@gmail.com</a><br><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">
The exhortation to come out of silosby IMAXI Cooperative is very valid. For health care of the poor and the marginalised, the basic standard considerations remain the same as ever - Nutrition, Sanitation, Water Supply and Information. All else follows. Somewhere along the debates there is a progressive narrowing of focus.Along with the world bodies, some of the peoples' bodies too seem to have forgotten that health care is not only disease management.
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