Nutrition Issues in Developing Countries for the 1980s and 1990s Proceedings of a Symposium (1986) / Chapter Skim
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To begin to give some thought to the implications of what has been said here, we will first hear comments from several panelists. SOL CHAFKIN , In a Latin American country, I once asked the leader of an important labor union, "What is the objective of the union?
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I have taken that challenge seriously, because in essence it says, "markedly low food energy intakes seem to allow normal activity" and people can lead healthy lives. The implication is profound.
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The significance of the idea of the primary health care center is that it is a way of organizing a community; it is not the only way, but it is one way to start the process. Primary health care will not solve all the problems of development, but it will demonstrate, as I have witnessed in the United States, how a health approach or a nutrition approach can be the most effective way of organizing a community.
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This same problem can be seen in some places in Harlem in the United States, as well as in Latin America or India. If the food distribution center or the health center were next door, the mother would not take the sick child there, because she is simply unable to function.
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Chen's point about the role of the international agencies. Not only is no international agency concerned directly with nutrition (I am not saying that we ought to have that)
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Indicators of this kind would create an opportunity to bring the human dimension back to development. The international agencies have an important role in developing these data.
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I hope the international agencies will play their part. Of course, donors should be included, and the nongovernmental organizations have an important role, too.
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The idea that the Third World is ruled entirely by dictators with no concern for their
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That is the significance of what we have seen at UNICEF and at WHO. In some key components of primary health care, immunization, oral dehydration, etc., you can get across to political leaders that things can be done even in times of great constraint, and it is amazing what political leaders themselves will do to generate support and promotion.
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In addition, special nutrition programs are needed for deprived urban population groups. A major task for governments and international agencies is to formulate strategies and policies that will enable the world of the l990s to cope with this fundamental issue.
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