—from Epidemiological Bulletin , Vol. 25 No. 2, June 2004—

Country Profiles

Since the 1950’s, the publication Health in the Americas, a two volume publication, has given a general overview of health and wellbeing in this Region. Volume II traditionally includes country chapters that detail the principal achievements and progress, as well as problems facing the country. Taking these country chapters as a base, a summary is created with the most salient information and placed on the PAHO Web under the title Country Health Profiles. Realizing that the Organization’s strategic programming contemplates targeting technical cooperation to priority and key countries, and given the Epidemiological Bulletin’s wide dissemination, it was decided last year to publish the country health profiles of the priority countries through this medium. Consequently the profiles for Bolivia, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, and Nicaragua were published. In this issue the profiles are published for three key countries, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Paraguay. The following issue will publish the profiles for Peru and Venezuela, which will give our readers a summarized version of the characteristics and conditions of these countries.

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Epidemiological Bulletin , Vol. 25 No. 2, June 2004