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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Antigua and Barbuda Tobacco Control Report 2011

Fact sheet

17 Oct 2018

Charts showing Antigua and Barbuda’s status in several key areas of the FCTC and how it compares with the rest of the Region of the Americas.

Fact sheetTobacco use

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Chronic Kidney Disease in Agricultural Communities in Central America - 2013

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This paper examines the current situation of chronic kidney disease in agricultural communities in Central America. The paper also presents the progress made in the clinical and epidemiological characterization of the disease so that the countries of the region can strengthen cooperation and the response of health systems.

PublicationEnvironment, climate change and health

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Core Indicators: Health Situation in the Americas 2017

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This document provides the latest information on key health indicators for the Region of the Americas.

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Disease Risk Factors in the Americas: Considerations on the Strengthening of Regulatory Capacity

Report

17 Oct 2018

This document, prepared under the the Organization’s innovative initiative “Strengthening Regulatory Capacity in the Region of the Americas for NCD Risk Factors” (REGULA), provides an overview of the status of key noncommunicable disease (NCD) risk factors in the Americas and fulfillment of international agreements that support action by Ministries of Health to protect populations from the a...

ReportMultisectoral ActionHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Economic Dimensions of Noncommunicable Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This publication explores the relationship between and the impact of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) on development and economic growth in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

PublicationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingSocial determinants of health

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease in Agricultural Communities in Central America: Case definitions, methodological basis and approaches for public health surveillance

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This document presents a background to this epidemic, including its epidemiology and main hypothetical risk factors of Chronic Kidney Disease of non-Traditional Causes (CKDnT). It also includes a description of clinical and pathological characteristics, the case definitions for CKDnT surveillance, and the methodological basis and approaches for public health surveillance.

PublicationEnvironment, climate change and healthSocial determinants of health

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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

Final report on the Health-Related Millennium Development Goals in the Americas

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report is designed to emphasize those contributions which were most significant and effective in attaining the results seen, and draw out some of the lessons learned. It probes the outcomes and experiences of implementing the MDGs in the Region, to derive a set of pertinent and relevant reflections and recommendations.

Report

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Strategic Fund. Annual Report 2017. Access to quality medicines and health

Report

17 Oct 2018

The Strategic Fund is a regional technical cooperation mechanism for pooled procurement of essential medicines and strategic public health supplies in the Americas. The Strategic Fund was created in 2000 by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) at the request of the Member States. Since then, the Fund has worked with countries to improve access to medicines and other health technologies, by...

ReportMultisectoral ActionAccess to essential medicines and servicesHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Health in 2015: from MDGs, Millennium Development Goals to SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report aims to describe global health in 2015, looking back 15 years at the trends and positive forces during the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) era and assessing the main challenges for the coming 15 years.

Report

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Health Technology Manual. Improving the Integrated Management of Chronic Diseases at the First Level of Health Care Services

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

The Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO’s) Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, ratified by the Directing Council in 2012, recommends the reorientation of health systems based on core principles of the integrated management of chronic diseases.

Strategy documentDigital health and innovationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health care

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