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Lifestyles
PAHO information resources on Lifestyles acknowledge that eliminating risk factors--alcohol, drug, and tobacco use, physical inactivity, improper diet, and stress--can have a measurable positive impact on individual health as well as on the population as a whole. This collection provides information on unhealthy behaviors and recommendations for prevention and control of the risk factors.
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Selected Publications on
Lifestyles
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Youth: Choices and Change
Presents the first-ever systematic collection and reporting of the application of behavioral change theories and models specifically to adolescents. Breaks new ground in explaining why some health promotion interventions aimed at positive adolescent behavior change produce the desired results, while others fai. (Scientific Publication, 2005© PAHO, 2005)
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Health in the Americas, 2007
This 2007 edition of Health in the Americas presents a broad picture of the regional situation and that of all the countries with regard to health and human development; specific disease conditions and risk factors;
environmental health, and the evolution of health systems and services. In addition, it considers and discusses progress made regarding the global commitment, expressed in the United Nations Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs), to tackle extreme poverty, hunger, disease, lack of water and sanitation, inadequate housing, and social exclusion and to promote gender equality, education, and environmental sustainability. That expression of countries’ collective commitment to social equity informs the text throughout this publication.
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Children First
A Success Story of Collaboration between Pediatric Hospitals in Mexico and Canada.
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