Jean de Kervasdoué
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Jean de Kervasdoué is a French economist born on 28 December 1944 in Lannion
. He is chairholder of Economics and Health Services Management at the National Academy of Arts and Trades (CNAM) and a member of the French Academy of Technologies
. He has been a general manager of hospitals.
An agricultural engineer at Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon
, he has earned an MBA and a doctorate in socio-economics from Cornell University
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, citing the lack of attention given to patients and too much state intervention. He pleads for example for a greater autonomy of the hospitals and denounces the employees of the hospitals, who, according to him, "Confuse service of the public and public service, even defense of the public statute.". He denounces the excessive centralization of the health system and advocates for the complete autonomy of the hospitals.
He is very critical towards the media and the lack of professionalism of certain journalists and opposed to the dedication of Charte de l'environnement, under its current form, the precautionary principle
in the Constitution of 4 October 1958, thus writing: "The major fault of this precautionary principle, its original sin is a sin of pride. It makes believe that one could protect oneself from everything because one could always detect the cause of a potential catastrophe."
He calls its wishes a scientific debate and not political concerning the environmental questions, denouncing those who he calls the "prophets of the apocalypse" and who play according to him on the environmental fears of society to impose their views without being justified scientifically. In particular, in The preachers of the Apocalypse, completely delirious with the ecological and medical, he denounces the "trickery" and "lies" of certain players of ecology. Jean de Kervasdoué considers that climate warning will touch first the inhabitants of poor countries. He considers that the only real possibilities of sustainable development pass by nuclear energy; in particular, he writes that this energy is for the mankind of the million times less mortal, less polluting, and less dangerous than coal. He also decides for the development of genetically modified organisms.
Lannion
Lannion is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany in northwestern France. It is a subpréfecture of Côtes-d'Armor, the capital of Trégor and the center of an urban area of almost 60,000 inhabitants.-Population:...
. He is chairholder of Economics and Health Services Management at the National Academy of Arts and Trades (CNAM) and a member of the French Academy of Technologies
French Academy of Technologies
The French Academy of Technologies is a learned society, founded in 2000, with an emphasis on technology. It is the newest of French academies...
. He has been a general manager of hospitals.
An agricultural engineer at Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon
Institut national agronomique Paris-Grignon
The Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon was a French grande école. It was created in 1971 by merging the Institut national agronomique and the École nationale supérieure d'Agronomie de Grignon, thus having a history that goes back to 1826.INA P-G disappeared as an administrative entity on...
, he has earned an MBA and a doctorate in socio-economics from Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
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Views on French healthcare
As an economic expert on hospitals, he has been very critical of the French healthcare systemFrench healthcare system
The French health care system is one of universal health care largely financed by government national health insurance. In its 2000 assessment of world health care systems, the World Health Organization found that France provided the "best overall health care" in the world...
, citing the lack of attention given to patients and too much state intervention. He pleads for example for a greater autonomy of the hospitals and denounces the employees of the hospitals, who, according to him, "Confuse service of the public and public service, even defense of the public statute.". He denounces the excessive centralization of the health system and advocates for the complete autonomy of the hospitals.
He is very critical towards the media and the lack of professionalism of certain journalists and opposed to the dedication of Charte de l'environnement, under its current form, the precautionary principle
Precautionary principle
The precautionary principle or precautionary approach states that if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of scientific consensus that the action or policy is harmful, the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those...
in the Constitution of 4 October 1958, thus writing: "The major fault of this precautionary principle, its original sin is a sin of pride. It makes believe that one could protect oneself from everything because one could always detect the cause of a potential catastrophe."
He calls its wishes a scientific debate and not political concerning the environmental questions, denouncing those who he calls the "prophets of the apocalypse" and who play according to him on the environmental fears of society to impose their views without being justified scientifically. In particular, in The preachers of the Apocalypse, completely delirious with the ecological and medical, he denounces the "trickery" and "lies" of certain players of ecology. Jean de Kervasdoué considers that climate warning will touch first the inhabitants of poor countries. He considers that the only real possibilities of sustainable development pass by nuclear energy; in particular, he writes that this energy is for the mankind of the million times less mortal, less polluting, and less dangerous than coal. He also decides for the development of genetically modified organisms.
Selective bibliography
- Les prêcheurs de l'apocalypse, pour en finir avec les délires écologiques et sanitaires, PlonPlon (publisher)Plon is a French book publishing company, founded in 1852 by Henri Plon and his two brothers.The Plon family were Walloons coming from Nivelle, France. One of their ancestors is probably the Danish typographer Jehan Plon who lived at the end of the 16th century.-History:The Editions Plon were...
, 2007, 250 p. - L'hôpital vu du lit, Seuil, 2004, 167 p.
- La Crise des professions de santé, DunodDunodDunod may refer to:*Dunod Fawr, 6th century Brythonic King somewhere in the North of Britain*Saint Dunod, late 6th/early 7th century Abbot of Bangor-on-Dee...
, 2003 - Notre État : le livre-vérité de la fonction publique (participation), Robert Laffont, 2000
- La santé intouchable : enquête sur une crise et ses remèdes, Editions J.-C. Lattès, 1996