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Small island developing states (SIDS) are a set of islands and coastal states that share similar sustainable development challenges, as a result of their size, geography and vulnerability to climate
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Leishmaniasis is a vector-borne tropical/subtropical disease caused by an intracellular parasite transmitted to humans by sand fly bite. It is endemic in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and
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Planning for public health emergencies should ensure that capabilities developed during previous emergencies are maintained, incorporated, and put into practice when a new event of public health concern arises. Investments in pandemic preparedness l
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This research report offers community perceptions of COVID-19 from migrants, refugees, host communities and indigenous populations in nine countries in the
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Editorial
Rev Panam Salud Publica 40(6), 2016
A Summary
Accessed: 23.11.2019
[Preface]. For more than forty years Primary Health Care (PHC) has been recognized as the cornerstone of an effective and responsive health system. The
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54th directing council; 67th session of the regional Committee of WHO for the
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This third edition of the landscape analysis provides regional and country-specific data. This report illustrates the complexities in surveillance
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This new edition highlights once again the importance of collecting disaggregated data to conduct gender-based analysis in order to determine, address, reduce, and eliminate
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This document focus on the direct consequences of the virus (morbidity and mortality) in specific populations and on
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The arrival and rapid spread of the mosquito-borne viral disease Chikungunya across the
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This brochure presents a summary of the situation of health systems and services in the
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Peru celebrates 200 years of independence in 2021. Over this period of independent life, and despite the turbulent socio-political scenarios, from
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To support the achievement of health equity in the Region,
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The Lancet Regional health Americas, vol.10 (2022) June 1, March 04, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2022.100222
The Global Campaign Against Epilepsy “Out of the Shadows”
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance plays an important role in the early detection of resistant strains of public health importance and pro
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Estimated number of pregnant women, number with access to at least four antenatal care visits, and those delivering in hospital settings in the Americas
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This third regional report discusses gaps and challenges in reducing the harmful use of alcohol and how countries can reverse current trends in a cost-effective and expedited way.
Chagas disease is currently endemic and also predicted to be at increased transmission risk under future climate change scenarios. Similarly, an expansion of areas in the United States at increased
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Obesity and diabetes are affecting the peoples of the Americas at high and increasing rates. Nat
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The COVID-19 pandemic is having a major impact on the mental health of populations in the
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This brief update on tuberculosis (TB) in the African region covers the state of TB in
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COVID-19 emergency response: Risk communication and community engagement in the Americas
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Since March, the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted operations and required a different approach to communication with communities.
UNHCR communication channels have been rapidly enhanced and enlarged to ensure
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Under the theme Equity at the Heart of Health, this Plan seeks to catalyze efforts in Member States to reduce inequities in health within and betwe
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The document is structured into five sections. The first presents the key experiences and challenges that justify a renewal
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It is Zika virus (ZIKV) that most often causes these neurological effects it appears to be the only arbovirus than can cause congenital malformations such as microcephaly. In any case, more scientific tests are needed to establish
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This document compiles the recommendations made by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to help prof
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There are indigenous communities at high risk in every country of the region. At stake are the l
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Due to high routine vaccination coverage, overall counts of diphtheria case have significantly declined in the Western Pacific Region recently. How
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The health and socioeconomic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the countries of
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Action Plan for Implementation of Recommendations from the Evaluation of PAHO's Response to COVID-19
An external team evaluated PAHO’s response to COVID-19 to provide an independent assessment of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau’s (PASB) performance regarding preparedness for and response to
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Asthma is the most common chronic respiratory disease (CRD) worldwide and is estimated to affect 262 million causing significant mortality and morbidity, and has emerged as an important public health problem in many Latin American (LA) countries ove
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In the face of rapid increases in the number of hospitalizations due to COVID-19 in Latin Americ
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During the 17 years since Surgical approaches to the urogenital manifestations of lymphatic filariasis was first published, there has been heighten
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Parasites & Vectors volume 11, Article number: 264 (2018)
Dengue creates a staggering epidemiological and economic burden for endemic countries. Without a specific therapy and with a commercial vaccine that presents some problems relative to its full effectiveness, initiatives to improve vector
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Epidemiology
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is caused by the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi, and transmitted to humans by infected triatomine bugs, and less commonly by transfusion, organ transplant, from mother to infant, and in r
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Access to safe blood and blood products is recognized as one of the key requirements for delivery of modern health care in
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The Resolution Population and Individual Approaches to the Prevention and Management of Diabetes and Obesity was approved by
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Global asymmetries influence policies for recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean. Nearly 30 years after the Earth Summit and the global adopti
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Chagas disease (CD) is endemic in the Americas, being present in 21 countries, where it affects about 6 million
people.(1) With such relevant numbers of
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Addendum to meeting report: Regional consultation on HIV epidemiologic information in Latin America and the Caribbean
An analysis from the perspective of the health sector in Latin America and the Caribbean
Wash
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By December of 2019, an estimated 5.3 million Venezuelans would have left the country, migrating in search of opportunities, health services and an
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There is no question that over the last thirty years environmentaldegradation and the ecological crisis have become in our day and age apredominant sign o
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To implement the set of recommendations on the marketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages to
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One of the main aims of the WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer and
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Climate change is increasing the risks of injuries, diseases, and deaths globally. However, the association between ambient temperature and renal d
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The Lancet Regional Health - Americas 2022;00: 100248 Published online xxx https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2022.100248.
The Lancet Countdown repor
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Universal health coverage and the Sustainable Development Goals in the WHO African Region
This Plan envisions a future with the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem as a result of universal access to sexual health an
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The current effort on fighting COVID-19 cannot conceal the fact that climatic and geological hazards affect Latin-America and the Caribbean every y
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April 2022 Volume 35 Issue 2 e00152-21
Population movements have turned Chagas disease (CD) into a global public health problem. Despite the successful implementation of subregional initiatives to
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This third booklet of the World Drug Report 2022 has a dual focus: opioids and cannabis.
The first chapter
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The Regional Action Framework for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention and Control provides a unified vision of objectives and recommended actions to combat
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Thefirst report on Latin America and the Carribean presents key indicators on health and health systems in 33 Latin America and the Caribbean countries. . Analysis is based on
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The chapter Dementia in Latin America and the Caribbean: Prevalence, Incidence, Impact, and Trends over Time, is part of
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Stigma toward individuals with mental disorders has been studied extensively. In the case of
Latin America and the Caribbean,
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Rev. Panam Salud Publica. 2017;41:e153. doi: 10.26633/RPSP.2017.153
Worldwide, over 6 million people are infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, the pathogen that causes Chagas disease (CD). In the
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The Pharmaceutical Forum of the Americas (PFA) has previously published guidelines and organised
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As the Americas undergo profound demographic change and there are more persons aged 65 years or older than children younger than 5 years, it is crucial to recognize that national immunization progra
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he WHO South-East Region in 2019 accounted for nearly a million missing TB patients from the estimated incidence. Active case-finding (ACF) or systematic screening for tuberculosis is an important t
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A review of proactive risk assessment and risk management practices to ensure the safety of drinking-water
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This document outlines PAHO’s regional priorities for the year 2023 to sustain and scale up health emergency and humanitarian assistance in the Americas
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The chapter Fostering Health Systems’ Monitoring to Better Serve Older Populations is part of the publication series entitled Decade
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This report includes analysis from informal regional consultations in the African Region, the Caribbean and North America, Latin America, South-Eas
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This report includes analysis from informal regional consultations in the African Region, the Caribbean and North America, Latin America, South-Eas
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This report includes analysis from informal regional consultations in the African Region, the Caribbean and North America, Latin America, South-Eas
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This report includes analysis from informal regional consultations in the African Region, the Caribbean and North America, Latin America, South-Eas
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This report includes analysis from informal regional consultations in the African Region, the Caribbean and North America, Latin America, South-Eas
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There are two sets of charts. One set (14 charts) can be used in settings where blood cholesterol can be measured. The other set (14 charts) is for settings in which blood cholesterol cannot be meas
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This document presents a policy to guide and support Member States of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Pan American Sanitary Bur
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Prevention, early diagnosis, and effective treatment are essential for the control and elimination of Neisseria gonorrhoeae as a public health problem. Currently, in Latin America and
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In many countries neonatal tetanus is responsible for half of all neonatal deaths due to vaccine-preventable diseases and for almost 14% of al¡ infant deaths. It is estimated that in
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WHO commissioned a survey, carried out in September/October 2015, among some 10 000 members of the public in 12 countries (2 per WHO Region: Barbad
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La carga de la diabetes es enorme, posicionándola como uno de los principales desafíos que enfrenta la salud pública en la actualidad. Actualmente, se estima que 62 millones de personas viven con diabetes en la Región de las
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El documento La carga de los trastornos mentales en la Región de las Américas, 2018 tiene como propósito mejorar la evaluación de las necesidades en materia de salud mental en la
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Esta hoja informativa destaca la relación entre el consumo de alcohol y la COVID-19. El alcohol se utiliza a menudo para la socialización y por algunas personas para hacer frente a las emociones difíciles como la ansiedad, el miedo, la depresión, el aburrimiento y la incertidumbre, todo lo cual
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La Organización Panamericana de la Salud se complace en presentar la segunda edición del Manual de procedimientos para la vigilancia y el control de las leishmaniasis en la Región de las Américas
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Las olas de transmisión de la fiebre amarilla ocurridas en la Región de las Américas entre el 2016 y el 2018 causaron el mayor número de casos humanos y epizoóticos registrados en varios deceni
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The leishmaniases are a group of diseases caused by Leishmania spp., which occur in cutaneous, mucocutaneous and visceral forms. They are neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), which disproportionately
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La Organización Panamericana de la Salud publica la tercera versión de la lista de dispositivos médicos prioritarios (LDMP) para el primer nivel de atención, elaborada de acuerdo con la realidad epidemiológica de los países de la Región de la
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Epidemiology, Control, and Financing
Factsheet.
Source: WHO Global Tuberculosis Report 2020
This publication summarizes the facilitators and barriers that will be encountered in the deinstitutionalization process and identifies useful and proven interventions in Latin American and Caribbea
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