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- 1. Argentina renews cooperation strategy with PAHO/WHO
- (29psc Events)
- The Director of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), Carissa F. Etienne, and the Minister of Health of Argentina, Jorge Lemus, have signed a new country cooperation ...
- Created on 26 September 2017
- 2. Coverage of the 57th Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization
- (Directing Council Coverage)
- ... Previous Next 57th Directing Council of PAHO 71st Session of the Regional Committee of WHO for the Americas Washington, D.C., 30 September to 4 October 2019 News ...
- Created on 27 August 2019
- 3. Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018-2030, Goal 7: Evidence and Knowledge in Health
- (SHAA2030)
- ... and use health research. This recommendation has been supported technically and politically since 1990 and is reflected in the PAHO Policy on Research for Health and WHO Resolution WHA60.15. The Policy ...
- Created on 28 August 2018
- 4. Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018-2030, Goal 8: Outbreaks, Emergencies and Disasters
- (SHAA2030)
- ... hospitals) (revised PAHO Strategic Plan outcome 5.2). Health Agenda Goal 8 News [1] Includes the results derived from the WHO emergency reform and its application ...
- Created on 28 August 2018
- 5. Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018-2030, Goal 9: Noncommunicable Diseases
- (SHAA2030)
- ... (SDG target 3.4). Apply the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) according to the national context (adapted from SDG target 3.a). Ensure access to comprehensive habilitation/rehabilitation ...
- Created on 28 August 2018
- 6. Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018-2030, Goal 10: Communicable Diseases
- (SHAA2030)
- ... WHO Global Health Sector Strategy on Viral Hepatitis 2016-2021, document A69/32 [2016]). Eliminate local malaria transmission between Member States and prevent possible reestablishment of the disease ...
- Created on 28 August 2018
- 7. Family of International Classifications (FIC)
- (Health Analysis, Metrics and Evidence - HA)
- p, li { font-size: 16px } .quadro #whofic { width: 400px } @media only screen and (max-width: 768px) { #whofic { width: 100% } .quadro } The World ...
- Created on 09 August 2018
- 8. Knowledge Translation for Health Decision Making
- (Health Analysis, Metrics and Evidence - HA)
- The World Health Organization (WHO) has defined Knowledge Translation (KT) as "the synthesis, exchange, and application of knowledge by relevant stakeholders to accelerate the benefits of global and ...
- Created on 28 June 2018
- 9. XXI Pan American Sanitary Conference
- (Pan American Sanitary Conference)
- ... or, in the case of the election of the Director, any number of votes greater than half the number of the Governments of the Organization. Governments abstaining from voting or who cast blank ballots or ...
- Created on 13 October 2017
- 10. World Health Assembly closes
- (67th World Health Assembly Coverage)
- ... of agenda items, documents and resolutions, and nearly 3 500 registered delegates," said Dr Margaret Chan, WHO's Director-General. " GENEVA ¦ 24 May 2014 -The 67th World Health Assembly closed today, ...
- Created on 24 May 2014
- 11. Margaret Chan: Health has an obligatory place on any post-2015 agenda
- (67th World Health Assembly Coverage)
- ... focus on the consequences for health. Also in March, WHO revised its estimates of the health effects of air pollution upwards. In 2012, exposure to air pollution killed around 7 million people worldwide, ...
- Created on 19 May 2014
- 12. June 22, 2012 :: Cholera
- (Photo of the Week)
- ... Nations Conference Rio+20, held on June 19-20, 2012, PAHO/WHO organized a side event titled "Water and Sustainable Development: Elimination of Cholera in Hispaniola". The event featured discussions on ...
- Created on 22 June 2012
- 13. PAHO Today, December 2008 Edition - Newsbriefs
- (PAHO Today)
- ... health services. Second prize went to Paraguay's Patricia Lima of Última Hora, who examined the role of climate change and environmental degradation in the deaths of at least 31 Paraguayans due to dengue, ...
- Created on 02 February 2009
- 14. Medical Product Alert N°2/2020 Falsified HIV rapid diagnostic test circulating in the WHO regions of the Americas and Africa
- Through its Global Surveillance and Monitoring System (GSMS) for substandard/falsified medical products, WHO was informed that at least 8,240 falsified rapid diagnostic tests to detect HIV-1/2 have been ...
- Created on 02 April 2020
- 15. WHO: SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands 5 may 2018 advocacy slides
- Each year the WHO SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign aims to maintain a global profile on the importance of hand hygiene in health care and to ‘bring people together’ in support of hand hygiene improvement ...
- Created on 27 April 2018
- 16. WHO Zika App; 2016
- WHO’s Zika app aims to provide essential information on Zika virus disease and its suspected complications. Designed primarily for health care workers and responders, the app can also be a source of real-time ...
- Created on 02 July 2016
- 17. WHO Zika App; 2016
- WHO’s Zika app aims to provide essential information on Zika virus disease and its suspected complications. Designed primarily for health care workers and responders, the app can also be a source of real-time ...
- Created on 02 July 2016
- 18. Policy brief: Building an adolescent-competent workforce
- The WHO policy brief “Building an adolescent competent workforce” aims to support advocacy to invest in competency-based educational programmes in adolescent health and development in both pre-service ...
- Created on 10 September 2015
- 19. Core competencies in adolescent health and development for primary care providers including a tool to assess the adolescent health and development component in pre-service education of health-care pro
- The WHO document “Core competencies in adolescent health and development for primary care providers” aims to help countries develop competency-based educational programmes in adolescent health and development ...
- Created on 10 September 2015
- 20. The World Health Organitation Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems (WHO-AIMS) and Country Reports
- Created on 23 October 2014
- 21. Changing Mindset: Strategy on Health Policy and Systems Research
- WHO Strategy for Health Policy and Systems Research This Strategy launched in 2012 represents a major breakthrough in health policy and systems research (HPSR) by undertaking three broad aims: to ...
- Created on 02 May 2014
- 22. Leishmaniasis in the Americas. Recommendations for the treatment; 2018
- This publication aims to disseminate knowledge and serve as a tool for health professionals who work directly with these diseases, assisting national leishmaniasis control programs in strengthening therapeutic ...
- Created on 03 July 2013
- 23. WHO-AIMS: Report on mental health systems in Latin America and the Caribbean
- Created on 01 May 2013
- 24. IESM-OMS: Informe sobre los sistemas de salud mental en América Latina y el Caribe
- Created on 01 May 2013
- 25. Report on the Mental Health Systems in Central America and Dominican Republic
- Created on 18 November 2009
- 26. Informe sobre los Sistemas de Salud Mental en Centroamérica y República Dominicana
- Created on 18 November 2009
- 27. WHO AIMS Guyana
- Created on 22 January 2009
- 28. Honduras report WHO AIMS
- Report of the Assessment of Mental Health Systems in Honduras using the WHO Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems (WHO-AIMS) Honduras, 2008
- Created on 19 December 2008
- 29. WHO. Implementation of the Global Strategy on Diet, physical Activity and health, Implementation of the Global Strategy on Diet, physical Activity and health. Guide for Population-based Approaches to Increasing ...
- This guide was initially developed by participants at the World Health Organization (WHO) Workshop on Physical Activity and Public Health, 24-27 October 2005, Beijing, China. The aims of the workshop ...
- Created on 15 December 2007
- 30. WHO. Implementation of the Global Strategy on Diet, physical Activity and health. Guide for Population-based Approaches to Increasing Levels of Physical Activity. 2007
- This guide was initially developed by participants at the World Health Organization (WHO) Workshop on Physical Activity and Public Health, 24-27 October 2005, Beijing, China. The aims of the workshop were ...
- Created on 15 December 2007