Subscribe
 
|
PUBLICATIONDissemination of information is a critical component of the technical cooperation provided by the Pan American Health Organization; every unit in PAHO, whether at Headquarters or the country level, carries out activities in this regard. Data and information are fundamental ingredients of health situation analysis, a type of analysis that should underlie social and health policymaking, health services organization, and planning and execution of health programs, and that should inform decisions which affect the future of people and nations. Publication of the series Health Statistics from the Americas was begun in 1991, to complement the quadrennial publication Health Conditions in the Americas and fulfill PAHO's mandate to collect and disseminate information on the health status of the population in the Region's countries. Previous issues have included summarized presentation of the entire contents of the PAHO mortality database; estimated sex-and-age specific death rates by broad groups of causes; mortality due to the cause groups of the PAHO 6/61 list; and historical summaries of reported cases of selected communicable diseases. The present volume is the third in the series, the issuance of these publications having been deferred in 1993 and 1994 during the preparation of Health Conditions in the Americas, itself a source of abundant statistical information. This 1995 Edition presents mortality trends in the countries, by age group and sex, for selected groups of causes; the latest mortality data received by PAHO, summarized using the 6/61 list; reducible gaps in mortality, with respect to country groupings and to the Region of the Americas; and selected demographic estimates and projections. The PAHO Health Situation Analysis Program, Division of Health and Human Development, is the technical unit responsible for preparing the material included in this publication.
Return to issue index
|
|||||||
|
