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10th International Dengue Course: 20 Years Strengthening Capacities (6-17 August 2007)
Symposium: 25 Years of Struggling against Dengue (9-11 August 2007)
In a regional context of increased dengue activity and the co-circulation of more than one serotype, since 1987 the three specialized PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers in Cuba have been jointly holding a biannual dengue course with the Pedro Kourí Tropical Medicine Institute (IPK), the Cuban Ministry of Public Health and PAHO. The course objective is to bring together a broad multidisciplinary spectrum of specialists in this field to debate on the the most relevant and updated aspects of this disease. The Symposium is aimed at providing a space where participants can acquire an updated vision of the most recent discoveries and advances in dengue and DHF, by facilitating and encouraging the exchange among the participants and prestigious world-renowned specialists. IPK
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Community Involvement in Rolling Back Malaria
The RBM community movement is both an active participant in malaria programmes and a political force intended to bring pressure upon governments to ensure that the health care needs of those most at risk of malaria are met. Evidence-based actions underpin all operations. RBM has already achieved notable successes in increasing political will, including making malaria a priority on their development and health agenda. RBM aims to generate a dynamic societal movement among those at risk of malaria. Organized community action against malaria must include empowering the most affected so that they can help themselves.
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Community-Based Approaches to Health Promotion: Guidelines for Community Mobilization.
The purpose of this article is two-fold. First several community-based CVD prevention programs are describe. Particular attention is paid to the strategies of community mobilization that were employed in these interventions. Second, from these programs, several guidelines for effective community mobilization for health promotion are distilled. Pages 149-164 (Health Promotion: An Anthology. © PAHO, 1996) (You can purchase this article) Full Text
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DDT Homepage
Home page of the DDT/UNEP/GEF/PAHO project on Regional Program of Action and Demostration of Sustainable Alternatives to DDT for Malaria Vector Control in Mexico and Central America.
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Field Photos, El Salvador: PAHO-MSPAS-JICA Collaboration Project to Fight Chagas Disease
These eight photographs illustrate a public-education program in schools, a TV campaign, and a medical entomology course, all activities of the collaboration agreement between PAHO and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), within the framework of the Initiative of Central American Countries to Interrupt Vectoral and Trasfusional Transmission of Chagas Disease (IPCA).
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Guidelines for Integrated Vector Management
The WHO Regional Office for Africa was the first to develop a framework to orient the implementation of Integrated Vector Management (IVM). The technical materials in this 36-page document are designed to guide the implementation process. There are additional sections on operational research, partnerships, sustainability, capacity-building and community mobilization. WHO/AFRO
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Keeping Leprosy Under Control: Caribbean Leprosy Control Managers' Workshop (Georgetown, Guyana, 29 June - 1 July 2005)
This event, focusing on the Caribbean, is co-sponsored by PAHO/WHO, Netherlands Leprosy Relief (NLR), the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre (CAREC), and the Ministry of Health of Guyana. It will provide a situation analysis, discussions on IEC and leprosy campaigns, the issues of tourism, and sensitivity and sustainability topics. Presentations will be made by the Caribbean delegates as well as those from Guyana and Suriname. This page includes an abstract and the summary report.
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Perspectives in Health - Volume 6, Number 2, 2002
Magazine published twice a year by the Pan American Health Organization. This edition features the following articles: September 11: Everything Changed - Back to Birth Basics - 100 Years of Pan-Americanism - Bioethics Through a Comic Book Lens - It Takes a Town - Who Are These Guys?
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Planning Social Mobilization and Communication for Dengue Fever Prevention and Control: A Step-by-Step Guide
A major obstacle to effective implementation of selective, integrated mosquito control has been the inability of ministries of public health to mobilize and coordinate the resources needed to achieve and sustain behavioural impact among populations at risk of dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DF/DHF). This guide offers a comprehensive and innovative managerial insight to planning social mobilization and communication for behavioural impact (COMBI strategy). This page offers access to an abstract, executive summary, and the full-text guide complete with tools.
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Principles and Methods of Behavior Change.
This chapter of the book "Building Better Health: A Handbook of Behavioral Change" discusses the fact that since every individual or group behavior is learned, it has the potential to be modified or replaced with other, newly learned behavior and it can be changed to improve health and wellbeing. The influence of culture, society and citizen and community participation when considering implementing a program designed to change behavior is analyzed. Collecting information for planning and intervening and preventing programs successfully are also part of this section. Pages 255-286. (Building Better Health: A Handbook of Behavioral Change, © PAHO, 2003) (You can purchase this chapter) Full Text
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RIMSA14/9-Community Participation in the Food Production Chain and Food Safety
Agenda item 11.2 for the 14th RIMSA, Mexico, 21-22 April 2005.
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Sustainable Development and Environmental Health - Healthy Settings
Sustainable Development and Environmental Health (SDE) - Healthy Settings, Healthy Municipalities and Urban Health, Health-Promoting Schools, Local Development and Community Participation
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