Cochrane Collaboration aspires to inform policymakers worldwide The Cochrane Collaboration, a nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of…
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…
GENEVA/ WASHINGTON, DC¦ 12 April 2013 (PAHO/WHO—UNICEF) — A new Global Action Plan launched today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF has the potential to save up to 2 million children every year from deaths caused by pneumonia and diarrhoea, some of the leading killers of children under five globally.The Integrated Global Action…
PAHO supports global efforts to eradicate polio Immunization experts from the Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO)…
PAHO/WHO offers virtual course on primary health care and management of pharmaceutical services The Pan American Health Organization/World Health…
Caribbean subregional managers' meeting opens in Bridgetown, Barbados The 2013 meeting of PAHO's Caribbean subregional managers opened April 8 at…
PAHO Director to meet with government leaders in Barbados 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…