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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Plan of Action for the Prevention and Control of NCDs in the Americas 2013-2019

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

This Plan of Action proposes actions on NCDs by the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB) and by Member States that take into account regional and subregional initiatives, contexts, and achievements and follow the 2014-2019 timeline of the PAHO Strategic Plan. At the same time it aligns with the World Health Organization (WHO) NCD Global Monitoring Framework and Global Action Plan 2013-2020.

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Plan of Action for the Prevention of Obesity in Children and Adolescents

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

This document provides Member States with the rationale and key strategic lines of action for comprehensive public health interventions to halt the progression of the obesity epidemic in children and adolescents.

Strategy documentMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthNutrition and food safetySocial determinants of healthPhysical inactivity+1

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Plan of Action to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

This document, endorsed to reduce the harmful use of alcohol, proposes to use the WHO’s global strategy as the framework for action and includes a regional plan of action implementing the global strategy.

Strategy documentHarmful use of alcohol

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Plan of Action to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol - 2011 (Resolution)

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

This strategy document sets out the principal areas of work to be addressed and identifies areas for technical cooperation to address the varying needs of Member States with regard to harmful alcohol consumption.

Strategy documentHarmful use of alcohol

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Population and Individual Approaches to the Prevention and Management of Diabetes and Obesity

Report

17 Oct 2018

The main goal of this resolution is to call on Member States to prioritize the prevention of obesity and diabetes and their common risk factors by establishing and/or strengthening policies and programs, integrating them into public and private health systems and working to ensure adequate allocation of resources to carry out such policies and programs.

ReportDiabetesNutrition and food safetySocial determinants of healthUnhealthy diets

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Profile of capacity and response to noncommunicable diseases and their risk factors in the Region of the Americas: Country capacity survey results (2015)

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report is intended to call attention to the urgent need to accelerate national efforts and invest more resources to fulfill the NCD commitments.

ReportMultistakeholder CollaborationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Road Safety in the Americas

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report functions as a monitoring tool for assessing the situation into the Decade and Plan of Action’s third year. As such, it describes the current road safety situation in the Americas; identifies gaps in road safety and stimulates national road safety action; and monitors the countries’ progress in implementing measures identified in the Decade of Action and in PAHO’s Plan of Action....

ReportEnvironment, climate change and healthHarmful use of alcohol

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Strategy and Plan of Action to Strengthen Tobacco Control in the Region of the Americas 2018-2022

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

This document offers a roadmap for prioritizing key provisions of the Convention that will enable the Member States to accelerate its implementation to meet targets established for the reduction of tobacco use and premature deaths from NCDs.

Strategy documentTobacco use

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Strategy and Plan of Action to Strengthen Tobacco Control in the Region of the Americas 2018-2022 Resolution

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

This document represents the Strategy and Plan of Acttion to Strengthen Tobacco Control in the Region of the Americas 2018-2022.

Strategy documentTobacco use

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Road Safety in the Americas

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report reflects current road safety information from 31 Member States. It indicates the regional, subregional rate of road traffic deaths and country specific information on road safety management. This document also provides the legislation analysis of the priority factors - drink-driving, speed, use of helmet, use of seatbelts and child restraint.

ReportEnvironment, climate change and healthHarmful use of alcohol

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Adolescents & Non-Communicable Diseases at a Glance

Fact sheet

17 Oct 2018

This fact sheet gives an overview of NCD risk behaviors in adolescents in the Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as highlights data on NCD costs, obesity and physical activity, consumption of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco, and sexual and reproductive health.

Fact sheetMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Adolescent and youth regional strategy and plan of action 2010–2018

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

This plan of action is intended to guide the preparation of current and future national adolescent and youth health plans, as appropriate, and to provide entry points for institutions and entities of all types who are interested in developing cooperation activities directed toward the Region’s 10–24-year-old population segment.

Strategy documentMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

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