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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international agency that specializes in public health. It is made up of 35 Member States, three Participating States, one Associate Member, and two Observer States. Its secretariat, the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB), is also the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health (RPSP/PAJPH) is a multilingual publication that in 1997 replaced the Boletín de la Oficina Sanitaria Panamericana and the Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization. Like its predecessors, the RPSP/ PAJPH offers researchers in the Region a scientifically validated, peer-reviewed outlet for public health research findings. It also catalogs the conceptual, social, and political trends indicating the general direction of public health in the countries of the Americas and conveys the decisions and initiatives of the Organization relating to its fundamental purposes: to promote and coordinate the efforts of the countries of the Americas directed toward improving health, fighting disease, prolonging life, and stimulating people’s physical, mental, and social development. In addition, the RPSP/PAJPH distributes information on the public health activities carried out in the Member States with the cooperation of the PAHO technical programs.
The RPSP/PAJPH is listed in the Index Medicus and such databases as Medline, Dialog, and LILACS as the Rev Panam Salud Publica. Some 9 000 copies per month are distributed to health sciences professionals, technicians, researchers, professors, and students, both in the Americas and other parts of the world. It is also available in the leading biomedical libraries, and the complete contents of every issue are posted on PAHO’s home page at http://www.paho.org and also at the following Internet adress: http://www. scielosp.org
The Pan American Health Organization holds the copyright to material published in the RPSP/PAJPH. Manuscripts are accepted with the understanding that they are original works that have not been published, (in print or electronically, e. g., Internet), or submitted for publication elsewhere, in part or in whole, and that in the future they will not be published or submitted elsewhere without the express authorization of PAHO.
The selection of material for publication is based on the following criteria: suitability of the subject for the journal and the importance of the subject matter for the Organization and the Member States; scientific soundness, originality, currency, and timeliness of the information; applicability beyond its place of origin and across the Region; compliance with the standards of medical ethics governing experimentation with human and animal subjects; respect for the Member States and the peoples they represent; a balance of topics and geographic origin of the information; and coherence of the design (a logical statement of the problem and a plan to achieve the objective of the study). Original research should follow the “IMRAD” format (Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, and Discussion) (see Section II.I). Shortcomings in this regard invalidate all the information and are grounds for rejecting the manuscript. Acceptance or rejection of a manuscript is based on the objective selection process described in Section II.P.
The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed, which may not necessarily reflect the opinion or policy of PAHO or its Member States. The mention of specific companies or of certain manufacturers’ products does not imply that they are endorsed or recommended by PAHO in preference to other ones of a similar nature.
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