Regional Strategy
(45 pp, PDF, 256 Kb)
Meeting Agenda
(2 pp, PDF, 157 Kb)
 Results (5 pp, PDF, 250 Kb)
General Presentations (PowerPoint)
- About the Regional Strategy (3838 Kb)
- Strategic Planning: Central America (in Spanish, 4697 Kb)
Country Presentations (PowerPoint)
Belize:
Health Priorities; Improving the surveillance system; Healthy Schools Program. (492 Kb)
Costa Rica (in Spanish):
Comprehensive Care; Policy for Prevention and Control of Obesity and Noncommunicable Disease; CARMEN Policy Observatory; Interinstitutional Commission; Cardiovascular disease as a cross-cutting issue. (6333/357 Kb)
El Salvador: A favorable situation (oral presentation not available in electronic format).
Guatemala (in Spanish): Health Priorities, with Emphasis on Noncommunicable Diseases; Consciousness-raising: Videos, Promotion of physical Activity; Plan based on the Strategy; Participation of commissions. (9313 Kb)
Honduras (in Spanish): Chronic Disease Indicators; Strengthening the reporting system. (2047 Kb)
Mexico: VIDA Systems, Metabolic Syndrome Project (oral presentation not available in electronic format).
Nicaragua: Program review; CARMEN: Education and Health (oral presentation not available in electronic format).
Panama: Reporting morbidity and mortality (oral presentation not available in electronic format).
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Objective: That the Central American countries and Mexico search for and begin to identify the national and subregional mechanisms for implementation of the Regional Strategy and Plan of Action on an Integrated Approach to the Prevention and Control of Chronic Diseases Including Diet, Physical Activity, and Health, approved by the PAHO/WHO 47th Directing Council in September 2006.
Expected Results
- Arrive at a draft agreement on a joint workplan for Central America that will identify priority activities for 2007 at the national, subregional, and regional level, to support the application of the Regional Strategy and Plan of Action.
- Start adapting the Regional Plan to the Central American reality.
- Identify synergies and gaps between the plans / national priorities and the Regional Plan.
- Identify mechanisms for implementing the plan at the national and subregional levels.
- Identify the Central American contribution to the implementation of the Regional Plan.
- Identify various subregional vehicles (e.g. networks, entities) that can facilitate implementation of the plan and its lines of action.
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