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Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas

Meetings and Events of the CARMEN Network: List and Access

CARMEN: A Network for Integrated Prevention and Control of Chronic Noncommunicable Disease in the Americas

Chronic Disease Prevention and Control: Home Page

Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 3, No. 3, March 2009

Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 11, November 2008

World Diabetes Day: 14 November 2008

CD48.R5 - Regional Strategy for Improving Adolescent and Youth Health

Regional Strategy on an Integrated Approach to the Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases Including Diet, Physical Activity, and Health

Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 8, August 2008

CD48/5 - Population-based and Individual Approaches to the Prevention and Management of Diabetes and Obesity

CD48/8 - Regional Strategy for Improving Adolescent and Youth Health

Introduction to Social Marketing: Its Application for Promoting Healthy Lifestyles (Mexico City, Mexico, 28 July – 1 August 2008)

Healthy Eating and Active Living

Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 7, July 2008

First Round of Community Cardiovascular Health Promoters Receives Diplomas (INCAP, Guatemala City, Guatemala, 26 June 2008)

Trans Fat Free Americas: Declaration of Rio de Janeiro

Chronic Diseases: PAHO Activities

Health Surveillance and Disease Prevention and Control at PAHO

4th Pan American Congress to Promote Vegetable and Fruit Consumption (Santiago, Chile, 28-30 August 2008)

CARMEN School International Course: Social Marketing and Preventing Child Obesity (Santiago, Chile, 26–27 August 2008)

Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 5, May 2008

CE142/9 - Population and Individual Approaches to the Prevention and Management of Diabetes and Obesity

Scaling Up Primary Health Care as a Major Strategy in the Prevention and Control of the Chronic Disease Epidemic (Global Health Council’s 35th Annual International Conference on Global Health, Washington, DC, 27 May 2008)

Caribbean Private Sector Response to Chronic Diseases (Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 8-9 May 2008)

Promoting Physical Activity in the Caribbean (Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, 6-7 May 2008)

Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 2, No. 4, April 2008

Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 12, December 2007

Dominica's National Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases Summit (14 December 2007)

Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 11, November 2007

World Diabetes Day: 14 November 2007--Unite for Diabetes

Stop the Global Epidemic of Chronic Disease: Advocacy Toolkit

Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 10, October 2007

CARMEN Network Biennial Meeting: Sharing, Learning, Imagining, Planning and Partnering to Implement the Chronic Disease Regional Strategy within the CARMEN Network (Nassau, Bahamas, 4–8 November 2007)

Capacity-Building in Prevention and Control of Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases: NCD Focal Points Meeting (Panama City, Panama, 10–12 October 2007)

Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 9, September 2007

NutriInfo Listserv (only in Spanish)

Biannual Meeting of the CARMEN Network (Santiago, Chile, 19-21 October 2005)

Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 4, April 2007

Chronic Disease Prevention & Control in the Americas, Vol. 1, No. 2, February 2007

Subregional Meeting of Representatives and Center Directors from Central America, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, and the US-Mexican Border Field Office (Belize City, 12–16 February 2007)

All About Diabetes

Obesity and Overweight (WHO Fact Sheet No. 311)

Obesity

Nutrition

CE138/17 - Regional Strategy and Plan of Action on an Integrated Approach to the Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases

CE138/18 - Regional Strategy and Plan of Action on Nutrition and Development

SPP40/12 Regional Strategy and Plan of Action on Nutrition and Development

Promoting Active Lifestyles and Healthy Urban Spaces: The Cultural and Spatial Transformation of Bogotá, Colombia

We Can! Ways to Enhance Children's Activity and Nutrition

National Nutrition Coordinators Conference 2004

Charting New Directions for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Prevention and Control in the Americas: A Joint NHLBI/PAHO Workshop (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA, 13–15 October 2004)

Unhealthy Lifestyles are threatening children’s hearts, warns the World Heart Federation on World Heart Day

World Heart Day: Sunday, 26 September 2004

Overweight and Aerobic Fitness in Children in the United States/Mexico Border Region.

The Obesity Epidemic in the Americas: Making Healthy Choices the Easiest Choices

Protocol for the Nutritional Management of Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension in the Caribbean

II PAHO-DOTA Workshop on Quality of Diabetes Care (Diabetes Research Institute/DRI, University of Miami, 14-16 May 2003)

Epidemiological Bulletin: Index of Online Bulletins

CAJANUS Vol. 36, No. 4, 2003 - Promoting Nutrition through Competition

Prevalence of and risk factors for overweight among school girls 12 to 19 years old in a semi-urban region of Ecuador

What do we do about the problem of overweight and obesity in the Americas?

Obesity: diagnosis and prescription for action in the English-speaking Caribbean.

Pan American Journal of Public Health - Vol. 13, No. 5, May 2003

RIMSA13/20 - Joint WHO/FAO Expert Report on Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Disease

Prevalence of overweight and obesity among Costa Rican elementary school Children

Pan American Journal of Public Health - Vol. 13, No. 1, January 2003

Perspectives in Health - Volume 7, Number 3, 2002

Pan American Journal of Public Health - Vol 12, No. 5, November 2002

The World Health Report 2002: Reducing Risks, Promoting Healthy Life

Food and nutrition.

Quantifying the Benefits of Breastfeeding: A Summary of the Evidence

Hope for Diabetes Prevention: US Government Urges Pre-Diabetes Testing for Overweight Americans

Food and Nutrition

NCD Surveillance Toolkit: Risk Factors for Non-Communicable Diseases

A comparison of distribution curves of body mass index from Brazil and the United States for assessing overweight and obesity in Brazilian adolescents.

Identifying, evaluating, and treating overweight and obesity in adults.

Obesity among the Poor: An Emerging problem in Latin America and the Caribbean

Factors in Obesity: Current Views

Socioanthropological Aspects of Obesity in Poverty

Physical Activity Patterns in Central America

Obesity and Poverty: a Pending Challenge in Chile

The Epidemiologic Transition in Cuba

The Epidemiologic Transition in Brazil

Epidemiologic and Demographic Transition: A Typology of Latin America and Caribbean Countries.

Issues for Public Health Surveillance of Obesity: Prevalence, Incidence, and Secular Trend

Anthropometric Indicators of Obesity: Epidemiologic and Public Health Aspects of Their Development and Use

Poor Fetal and Child Growth and Later Obesity and Chronic Disease: Relevance for Latin America

Obesity in Adolescence

Obesity and Poverty: A New Public-Health Challenge

Pan American Journal of Public Health/Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública

Nutrition, Health and Child Development: Research Advances and Policy Recommendations

Obesity Among the Poor: An Emerging Problem in the Region