Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Nov 2018
This policy brief highlights that the increasing burden of NCDs is linked strongly to global marketing of tobacco, alcohol, and processed foods and beverages which are high in fat, sugar and/or salt.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
12 Nov 2018
This policy brief highlights the increasing exposure of children and adolescents to tobacco, alcohol, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity, and points out the education sector as having a fundamental responsibility to protect children’s health an...
Report
17 Oct 2018
This document is a summary of an exploratory international meeting on regulation of marketing of alcohol products held at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) headquarters in Washington, D.C., USA, 12–13 January 2015.
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 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.
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...
Strategy document
17 Oct 2018
This global strategy document focuses on ten key areas of policy options and interventions at the national level and four priority areas for global action to reduce the harmful use of alcohol.
Strategy document
17 Oct 2018
This document presents the resolution to endorse the Strategy and approve the Plan of Action on Epilepsy and their implementation under the particular conditions of each country to provide an appropriate response to current and future needs.
Strategy document
17 Oct 2018
This document describes the experiences in our Hemisphere, expresses the commitment of the governments, and is compatible with the Global Action Program (mhGAP).
Dialogue
17 Oct 2018
This joint statement calls for the recognition of youth leadership´s role in the implementation of the Agenda for Sustainable Development and changing the production and consumption patterns of our societies.
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This thematic issue of the Pan American Journal of Public Health is part of a continued collaboration between the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and PAHO/WHO
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 ana...
