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Encuesta Nacional de Condiciones de Vida 2015 (ENCOVI)
Ecoanalítica Año 13. Número 08. Semana I Marzo 2018
The State of the World’s Children 2013: Children with Disabilities examines the barriers – from inaccessible buildings to dismissive attitudes, from invisibility in official statistics to vicious discrimination – that deprive children with disabilities of their rights and keep them from partic ... more
KEY INDICATORS (AS OF 31 AUGUST) 905,831 Refugees and asylum seekers registered in Ethiopia 59% Percentage of refugees below the age of 18 36,135 New arrivals registered in Ethiopia in 2018
Data on the essential building blocks of mental health systems, including mental health governance, financing, service delivery, human resources and information, are reported. For mental health planning, it is important to know not only the level of resources in these six areas, but also how thos ... more
Nurses are key players in health promotion and disease prevention and the backbone of health care systems worldwide. Nurses work on the front lines of disease prevention, health promotion, and health management and are often the unsung heroes in health care facilities and emergency response. Despite ... more
2nd edition. The tool kit provides learning objects and curricular content to support the competencies for those proficiency/trainee levels
By December of 2019, an estimated 5.3 million Venezuelans would have left the country, migrating in search of opportunities, health services and an overall search to improve the socio-economic conditions of themselves and their families. This is the largest migration in the history of the Americas. ... more
Women and girls are paying the price of the war in Yemen – Humanitarian actors must increase the priority given to women and girls’ needs, with specific attention to GBV prevention and response, and reproductive health services

Atlas - Country Resources for neurological disorders

World Health Organization, WFN (2017) C_WHO
Second edition
This report aims to improve the assessment of mental health needs in the Americas by providing an updated and nuanced picture of: (a) the disability resulting from mental, substance use, and specific neurological disorders, plus self-harm, alone and in combination with premature mortality; (b) the i ... more
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 Región de las Américas al presentar un panorama actualizado y matizado de: a) la discapacidad debida a los trastorn ... more
For the 24th consecutive year, PAHO has published the report Health Situation in the Americas: Core Indicators featuring the latest information on key indicators for the Region of the Americas. This 2018 edition includes data on the 82 core indicators for the countries, territories, and sub regions ... more
Children's Health and the Environment WHO Training Package for the Health Sector World Health Organization

Modèles pour un approvision- nement légal en cannabis: évolutions récentes

Observatoire européen des drogues et des toxicomanies (2016) C2
Perspectives sur sur les drogues

The health and social effects of nonmedical cannabis use

World Health Organization (2016) C_WHO

Executive Summary - Conclusions and policy implications

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; World Drug Report 2017 (2019) C2
World Drug Report 2017 -1- Accessed: 14.03.2019

The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2017

G. Sander Harm Reduction International; European Union (2018) C2
Tobacco control legislation: an introductory guide

Tobacco taxes in WHO Member States

World Health Organization (2017) C_WHO
TECHNICAL NOTE III WHO REPORT ON THE GLOBAL TOBACCO EPIDEMIC, 2017

Résumé analytique, conclusions et incidences stratégique

Office des Nations Unies contre la drogue et le crime (2018) C2
Rapport mondial sur les drogues 2018

Resumen, conclusiones y consecuencias en materia de políticas

Oficina de las Naciones Unidas contra la Droga y el Delito (2018) C2
Informe mundial sobre las drogas
World Drug Report 2018 -2-

Analysis of drug markets - Opiates, cocaine, cannabis, synthetic drugs

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2018) C2
World Drug Report 2018 -3-

Health, Rights and Drugs

UNAIDS (2019) C_WHO
Harm Reducation, Decriminalization and Zero Discrimination for People who use Drugs

European Union - Overview

Drug War Facts; Common Sense for Drug Policy (2019) C2
Accessed: 28.03.2019
Trastornos de ansiedad Capítulo F.1 Edición en español Editor: Matías Irarrázaval Traducción: Matías Irarrázaval y María Tatiana Estefan
Trastornos de ansiedad Capítulo F.2 Versión en español: Editor: Cesar Soutullo Traductores: Andrea Candelas-Muñoz, Cecilia Hernández-González, Ana Mena
The Member States of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) that appear in the tables below have used the assessment instrument for mental health systems (WHOAIMS) (1), as have Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, Montserrat, and Turks and Caicos, all British O ... more
To understand the mental health treatment gap in the Region of the Americas by examining the prevalence of mental health disorders, use of mental health services, and the global burden of disease.
This report presents the most current data on four specific forms of violence – violent discipline and exposure to domestic abuse during early childhood; violence at school; violent deaths among adolescents; and sexual violence in childhood and adolescence. The statistics reveal that children expe ... more
Ginebra, 14-16 de marzo de 2011
Во Всемирном докладе о наркотиках содержится комплексная информация по положению в области незаконных наркотиков. В нем представлены подробные оценки и тенденци ... more

Atlas - Child and adolescent mental health resources

World Health Organization; International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions; World Psychiatric Association (2005) C_WHO
Global concerns: Implications for the future Child Mental Health Atlas

Students' Toolkit: Social accountability in medical schools

The International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA); Training for Health Equity Network (THEnet) (2017) C2
This toolkit aims to provide you with a brief introduction of what SA and its core principles are, and how you as a student can apply several of the existing tools for your own school to really make a difference. French, Spanish and Arabic Version available: https://ifmsa.org/social-acc ... more
Le suicide est évitable. Pourtant, toutes les 40 secondes, une personne se suicide quelque part dans le monde et bien plus tentent de mettre fin à leurs jours. Aucune région ni aucune tranche d’âge n’est épargnée. Il touche toutefois particulièrement les jeunes de 15 à 29 ans, chez qui i ... more
Making the Case for Alcohol as a Public Health Threat in the Region. The purpose of this document is to explain the need for making alcohol a top public health priority in the region and the need for national and regional action. Current evidence-based research shows that alcohol consumption and dri ... more

Epilepsy in Latin America

Kestel, D., et al. Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) (2016) C_WHO
This is the first global report on epilepsy summarizing the available evidence on the burden of epilepsy and the public health response required at global, regional and national levels. The reports highlights major gaps in awareness, diagnosis, treatment, and health policies through a series of a ... more
The seventh WHO Report on the global tobacco epidemic analyses national efforts to implement the most effective measures from the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) that are proven to reduce demand for tobacco. The report showed that while only 23 countries have implemented ce ... more
En el presente documento se comunica el progreso logrado en la Región hacia la eliminación de la transmisión maternoinfantil del VIH y la sífilis entre los años 2010 y 2017. Se trata también del primer informe regional sobre la eliminación de la transmisión maternoinfantil y durante la prime ... more
El manual tiene por objetivo ampliar los conocimientos sobre la enfermedad y aspira a ser una herramienta de trabajo para que el personal de salud y los equipos de gestión presten apoyo a los ministerios de salud en sus respectivos procesos de estructuración de los servicios de salud, así como en ... more
Los datos incluidos en este informe demuestran que en la Región de las Américas existe un desarrollo progresivo en relación con las políticas, leyes, programas y servicios de salud mental. Sin embargo, se necesitan aun grandes esfuerzos, compromisos y recursos para alcanzar los objetivos regiona ... more
At least half of the world’s population does not have full coverage of essential health services. Health expenses push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty each and every year, forcing them into terrible choices that no one should ever have to make: Buy medicine or food? Education or ... more
Este folleto presenta los datos sobre la mortalidad por ENT y la prevalencia de factores de riesgo de las ENT, para los países en la región de las Américas. Su contenido está enfocado en la agenda 5 x 5 de ENT que incluye las principals ENT (enfermedades cardiovasculares, cáncer, diabetes y enf ... more

Prevention Gap Report

UNAIDS; AIDSinfo (2016) C2
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

The Global State of Harm Reduction 2016

K. Stone; G. Sander Harm Reduction International (2016) C2
Compared to the previous five-year assessment period 2011–2015, the current five-year period 2015–2019 has seen a continued increase in carbon dioxide (CO2 ) emissions and an accelerated increase in the atmospheric concentration of major greenhouse gases (GHGs), with growth rates nearly 20% high ... more
UNAIDS 2019, Reference This edition of UNAIDS data shows the results of some of those successes, but also the challenges that remain. It contains the very latest data on the world’s response to HIV, consolidating a small part of the huge volume of data collected, analysed and refined by UNAIDS ov ... more
Defending Rights Breaking Barriers Reaching People with HIV Services Global Aids Update 2019
Global AIDS Update 2017
The GHS Index is intended to be a key resource in the face of increasing risks of high-consequence and globally catastrophic biological events and in light of major gaps in international financing for preparedness. These risks are magnified by a rapidly changing and interconnected world; increasing ... more
Accessed: 06.11.2019

Las personas transgénero y la infección por el VIH

Organización Panamericana de la Salud; Organización Mundial de la Salud (Las Américas) (2018) C2

Transgender people and HIV

D. Adams; J. Byrne; M. Cabra; et al. World Health Organization (2015) C_WHO
Policy Brief

HIV and young transgender people

World; UNFPA; UNHCR (The UN Refugee Agency); et al. (2015) C_WHO
Technical Brief

UNAIDS Action Framework: Universal Access for Men who have Sex with Men and Transgender People

Joint United Nations Programme on HIVAIDS (UNAIDS); UNDP (2009) C2

HIV and young men who have sex with men

World Health Organization; UNFPA; UNAIDS; etc al. (2015) C_WHO
Technical Brief Damon Barrett, Gonçalo Figueiredo Augusto, Martiani Oktavia, Jeanette Olsson, Mira Schneiders and Kate Welch provided background papers and literature reviews which informed this technical series.
Constituting the second part of the World Drug Report 2022, the present booklet contains an overview of the global demand for and supply of drugs. The first chapter of the booklet begins with the latest estimates of the number of people who use drugs, the distribution of those users by type of drug ... more
This third booklet of the World Drug Report 2022 has a dual focus: opioids and cannabis. The first chapter of the booklet provides an overview of opioids as a group of substances and their patterns of non-medical use at the global level. It also reviews the latest trends in the global supply of opi ... more
Constituting the fourth part of the World Drug Report 2022, this booklet focuses on the market dynamics of various stimulants – cocaine, amphetamines and “ecstasy” – and of NPS. The first chapter contains an analysis of the global market for cocaine, starting with a review of cocaine supply ... more

Integration of Gender and Human Rights in HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health Services

R. Clarke; S. Caffe; A. Guedes; et al. Pan American Health Organization; (Regional Office of the World Health Organization); UN Women (United Nations for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women) (2013) C2
Training for Health Care Providers Facilitators’ Manual

Do no Harm - Health, Human Rights and people who use drugs

UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIVAIDS) (2019) C2
Accessed: 07.11.2019

Progress Report on the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1983

UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIVAIDS) (2016) C2

Using TRIPS flexibilities to improve access to HIV treatment

UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIVAIDS); World Health Organization; UNDP (2019) C2
Policy Brief Accessed: 20.11.2019

Cities ending the AIDS epidemic

Fast-Track Cities; UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Programme on HIVAIDS); Mairie de Paris; et al. (2016) C2
UNAIDS / 2016

Prevención de la infección por el VIH bajo la lupa

M. Alonso González; J. Hourcade Bellocq; M. B. Mello; et al. Organización Panamericana de la Salud; Organización Mundial de la Salud (Américas); ONUSIDA (2017) C_WHO
Un análisis desde la perspectiva del sector de la salud en América Latina y el Caribe Washington, D.C., 2017

HIV prevention in the Spotlight

M. Alonso González; J. Hourcade Bellocq; M. B. Mello; et al. Pan American Health Organization; World Health Organization (Americas); UNAIDS (2017) C_WHO
An analysis from the perspective of the health sector in Latin America and the Caribbean Washington, D.C., 2017

Informe sobre Equidad en Salud 2016

L. Carvajal- Vélez; M.González; G. Hauck; et al. Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (Unicef); Tulane University (School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine) (2016)
Análisis de las inequidades en salud reproductiva, materna, neonatal, de la niñez y de la adolescencia en América Latina y el Caribe para guiar la formulación de políticas
Washington, DC, 2013
· Relevant interventions · HIV country profiles · Adolescents country profiles

Elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis in the Americas

M. Alonso González; M. B. Mello.; A. Benzaken; et al. Pan American Health Organization; World Health Organization (Americas); Unicef; et al. (2017) C_WHO
Update 2016

New generations free of HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B and Chagas disease in the Americas 2018

M. Alonso González; M. B. Mello; L. Sereno; et al. Pan American Health Organization; World Health Organization (Americas); Unicef (2019) C_WHO
- EMTCT Plus
Progress in reducing tobacco use is a key indicator for measuring countries’ efforts to implement the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control – target 3.a under the Sustainable Development Goals agenda. Countries have adopted this indicator to report progress also towards the tobacco reducti ... more
Accessed: 30.01.2020
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
This month 600 people reached Greece, mostly to Lesvos island. UNHCR with IOM and UNICEF welcomed the latest relocations of 49 unaccompanied children from Greece to Portugal and Finland and called for more. The need for such solutions is high as only one in four has a place in a shelter. The prematu ... more
October 2018 HIV testing services
July 2018
Organizing and Delivering High Quality Care for Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases in the Americas
The International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) is a global federation of national associations of pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists. In order to support these associations in their fight against AMR, FIP has prepared this briefing document. It is an overview of the different activities ... more
Participant Manual February 2011 Edition 3.0
Updated with information on Ebola virus disease and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus A wide variety of health events ranging in severity may occur related to air transport, requiring different responses or, perhaps, no response at all. The target audience for this guidance document incl ... more
Les infections associées aux soins (IAS) touchent des centaines de millions de patients dans le monde chaque année. Ces infections sont à l’origine de pathologies graves, de prolongements de la durée du séjour en établissement de soins, d’invalidités à long terme, de coûts personnels im ... more