Mexico City, 15 April 2013 (PAHO/WHO) - During her first official visit to Mexico, the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Carissa F. Etienne, will speak about the importance of "health in all policies" in a seminar at Mexico's Secretariat of Health in Mexico City.
During her two-day visit, she will also visit Mexico state to…
A new Global Action Plan launched today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and…
Immunization experts from the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)…
The Pan American Health Organization/World Health…
The 2013 meeting of PAHO's Caribbean subregional managers opened April 8 at…
PAHO Director Carissa F. Etienne is in Barbados this week (April 8—12) for her first…
PAHO/WHO urges individuals to "know your numbers" and health providers to take every opportunity to measure patients' blood pressure
Washington, D.C., 4 April 2013 (PAHO/WHO) — At least one in three adults in the Americas has high blood pressure, or hypertension, the number-one risk factor cardiovascular disease and death throughout the world.…
3 April 2013 | Geneva - To mark World Health Day on 7 April, WHO is calling for intensified efforts to prevent and control hypertension, also known as high blood pressure. Worldwide, high blood pressure is estimated to affect more than one in three adults aged 25 and over, or about one billion people.
Hypertension is one of the most important…
Three Latin American countries are working to strengthen…