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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Core Indicators: Health Situation in the Americas 2017

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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

Depression and Other Common Mental Health Disorders: Global Health Estimates

Report

17 Oct 2018

This booklet provides latest available estimates of the prevalence of depression and other common mental disorders at the global and regional level, together with data concerning the consequences of these disorders in terms of lost health.

ReportMental Health and Neurological Conditions

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Diagnostic Criteria And Classification Of Hyperglycaemia First Detected In Pregnancy

Guide

17 Oct 2018

This guideline provides an update to the 1999 WHO recommendations for diagnosing and classifying hyperglycaemia in pregnancy. The target users are health care professionals who care for pregnant women, most frequently primary care physicians and obst...

GuideDiabetesPrimary health care

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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)...

ReportMultisectoral ActionHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Early Diagnosis of Childhood Cancer

Guide

17 Oct 2018

This manual builds on the methodology established by the PAHO/WHO program Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI). It is intended for use as part of the compendium of IMCI resources for primary care providers, and includes comprehensive i...

GuideCancerMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthPrimary health care+1

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Economic Dimensions of Noncommunicable Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean

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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

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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 characteristi...

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,...

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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)...

ReportMultisectoral ActionAccess to essential medicines and servicesHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing+1

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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.

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