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World Fair on Municipalities and Health
Buenos Aires, Argentina. August 18-21, 2009.- Argentina hosted the first World Fair on Municipalities and Health: Rights, Citizenship, and Integrated Local Management for Development, one of the year’s most important international health events, with around 3,000 participants expected.
The first day of the Fair closed with a presentation by the Director of the Pan American Health Organization, Dr. Mirta Roses Periago, who talked about "Municipalities, Health and Integrated Management: An Opportunity to Support the Exercise of Civil Rights."
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Director's presentation » [only Spanish version]
With a declaration of commitment to work together for a most healthy world and with an appeal to promote the full development of its communities, the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Mirta Roses, closed the World Fair on Municipalities and Health.
Closing »(21/Aug/2009)
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Improving Public Health by addressing the SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH
Asuncion, Paraguay. 16 February 2009.- SRMM-Subregional Managers' Meeting Andean Region and Southern Cone.
Director's Interview with IP Paraguay (Secretariat of Information and Communication for Development) during her official visit to Paraguay to participate in the PAHO's SRMM.[only Spanish version]
"... la formulación de políticas públicas que aborden el peso de los determinantes sociales para reducir las desigualdades que se encuentran en los resultados de salud de la población y también de manera importante en cómo llevar a que la salud esté integrada en todas las políticas públicas (de empleo, de inversión en infraestructura, en alfabetización universal, etc.) de modo que se pueda trabajar de manera concertada y teniendo en cuenta que el objetivo final es la calidad de vida de la población ... "
Entrevista/Interview »
PDF »(16/Feb/2009)
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The effects of climate change on human health
September 2008. CNN interviews PAHO’s Director.
In an interview with CNN, the Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) underlined the effects of climate change on human health, the new challenges faced by global health, the importance of access to and quality of safe water and food for human consumption, as well as the high incidence on the health of populations due to the changes caused by the variations in the climatic behavior of our planet, concluding that joint action and individual responsibility is vital to preserve the planet and human health.
Climate Health and Human Health [Only Spanish version]
Cambio Climático y Salud Humana(30/Sep/2008)
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Books
Healthy municipalities, cities and communities: Evaluation Recommendations for Policymakers in the Americas
Health promotion has emerged internationally as an important strategy for achieving equity, democracy and social justice. It has demonstrated success in addressing difficult health, social, and economic problems, providing a valuable framework through which to organize social and political action to improve health and living conditions. Health promotion is a technical and political approach to work across sectors and improve the quality of life.(14/Nov/2005)
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Handbook for a safe and healthy school - A healthy environment for children
This manual provides specific guidelines for safe and healthy schools in Suriname and aims at policy makers, school management and boards, headmasters and teachers and guides their attention to specific environmental health related problem areas and offers appropriate solutions for school environments. This manual contains the experiences of several projects executed in the period 2000-2005, which aimed to improve environmental health conditions at schools. This manual is divided into 8 chapters. This book also highlights the commitment and participation of students in health and environmental health issues and activities at school. We advice all teachers to stimulate, encourage and actively support the establishment and functioning of student health, environmental and safety clubs.(31/Oct/2005)
In English (8778.38k)
Pesticides and Health in the Central American Isthmus
This document was prepared using the conceptual model of Motor Force, Pressure, State, Exposition, Effects and Action adapted by the World Health Organization from the proposal made by UNDP to supervise the progress towards sustainable development, and it carries out quantitative analysis of the import, use and consequences that the use of chemical pesticides in the Central American Isthmus represent for health conditions.(16/Aug/2005)
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Videos: Healthy Environments, Healthy Children
A collection of videos produced by the Pan American Health Organization, in four different languages.(14/Dec/2005)
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Other Resources
SDE Centers (2007)
SDE Centers webpage
SDE Collaborating Centers
Technical cooperation efforts with PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers and other national and international agencies, as well as nongovernmental organizations, have facilitated important achievements in public health, particularly in the Area of Sustainable Development and Environmental Health.
(15/Feb/2007)
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en español (8.76k)
SDE Children (2007)
SDE Children webpage
Welcome to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Sustainable Development and Environment Area (SDE) web site on Healthy Environments for Children. In this site you will find documents developed within the region on environmental concerns that focus explicitly on children. You will also find materials to download and use in your community on children's environmental health and you will be able to link to other valuable sites that provide information, documents and materials to download. It is our intention to provide you with the best possible access to information that we think is useful to people in the region of the Americas. Please submit comments or questions to webmaster khoddami@paho.org
(15/Feb/2007)
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SDE Healthy Development (2007)
The equity and the social inclusion are the guiding principles of the process of local development shaped as an environment and a set of tools to strengthen the local management, the democratic participation of the citizenship in the decisions that affect and define the health conditions and quality of life in the context of a reflexive public sphere, dynamic and that responds to the needs and aspirations of the population. The public policies are a motor for the development with equity, while the participation and the citizen empowerment are the inspiration and the creativity for the sustainable social development.
(15/Feb/2007)
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Periodical Publications
EID Updates: Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Region of the Americas, Vol. 4, No. 8 (16 April 2007)
This issue provides details on how the dengue outbreak in Paraguay is continuing to subside.(16/Apr/2007)
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Prevention, control, and elimination of neglected diseases in the Americas: Pathways to integrated, inter-programmatic, inter-sectoral action for health and development
Over 210 million people in the Americas live below the poverty line. These impoverished and marginalized populations are heavily burdened with neglected communicable diseases. These diseases continue to enact a toll, not only on families and communities, but on the economically constrained countries themselves. The purpose of this paper is three fold. First, it focuses on a need for integrated "pro-poor" approaches and policies different from traditional approaches. Second, it outlines the need for a specific strategy for addressing these diseases and offers several entry points in the context of broad public health measures involving multiple sectors. Finally, the paper presents several initiatives from PAHO and other institutions that document the importance of integrated, inter-programmatic, and inter-sectoral approaches. Authors include PAHO experts from different areas and the PAHO Director. (BMC Public Health 2007, 7:6, doi:10.1186/1471-2458-7-6)
(17/Jan/2007)
In English BMC Public Health
PAHO Today - September 2005 Edition
PAHO Today is the newsletter of the Pan American Health Organization, published three times a year. In this edition: Inequity Impedes Progress on Millennium Development Goals, Planning for the Flu Pandemic, Scaling Up HIV/AIDS Care, more.(12/Sep/2005)
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Technical Documents
CE142/25 - Health and International Relations: Linkages With National Health Development
(4/Jun/2008)
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Toward Universal Access to HIV Prevention, Care and Treatment: 3 by 5 Report for the Americas
As governments, organizations, and individuals strive to combat AIDS deaths and the spread of HIV, we must all aim high. The magnitude of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and its potential to spread require high level planning and large scale action. When the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS set the goal to treat three million people with antiretrovirals by 2005, it was with this aim to think big and achieve commensurate gains.(3/Aug/2006)
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The Challenge in Disaster Reduction for the Water and Sanitation Sector: Improving Quality of Life by Reducing Vulnerability
This joint publication (PAHO, UNICEF, ISDR, and IFRC) was introduced at the 4th World Water Forum in Mexico in March 2006 to draw attention to the importance of ensuring that water and sanitation systems remain fully operational in the aftermath of natural disasters. It is hoped that in this way, countries will meet, by the year 2015, the MDG target of reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to drinking water and basic sanitation. Risk management is an important tool for the fulfillment of global challenges to provide water and sanitation services to all at all times.(8/May/2006)
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