PAHO-WHO Bahamas & Turks and Caicos Country Office, hosted a train the trainers session on Mental Health and the High School Literacy Program, December 11-13, 2017. The session highlighted…
PAHO-WHO Bahamas & Turks and Caicos Country Office, hosted a train the trainers session on Mental Health and the High School Literacy Program, December 11-13, 2017. The session highlighted…The Ministry of Health of Bolivia, through the National Program for the Prevention and Treatment of Addictions, with PAHO/WHO support, organized a training workshop in Cochabamba, December 13-5, for implementing WHO's mhGAP Intervention Guide for mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized health settings.
It was attended…
A group of international experts was convened by the Mental Health and Substance Use Unit of the Pan American Health Organization in Washington D.C., December 5-6, 2017, to…
The Subregional Workshop on analysis, advances and perspectives of the Central American and the Dominican Republic Observatory of suicidal behavior and mental health, was held in Panama City, November 15-16, 2017.It was convened…
Twenty mental health professionals from the ministries of health of Bahamas, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago met in Port of Spain, November 14-16, 2017, to attend the advanced course on "…
This meeting was organized by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Suriname, November 7-8, 2017. The main objective was to gain insight…The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), in collaboration with the Douglas Institute from McGill University - PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, hosted a regional meeting on mental wellness and suicide prevention in indigenous communities, which was held in Montreal, 25-26 October 2017. Participants…
Wash., DC, 26 Feb 2018 (PAHO) - As part of the efforts to promote the adoption of tobacco taxes as a tobacco control measure and foster implementation of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the Pan American Health Organization, The Secretariat of the FCTC, the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, the American Cancer Society, Johns Hopkins…
PAHO/WHO units of Mental Health and Substance Use and Healthy Life Course collaborated to organize a regional workshop on dementia in Santo Domingo, 15-16 October, 2017. The objectives pursued were: to present and discuss PAHO's Regional Strategy and Plan of Action on Dementia in Older Persons; to discuss approaches and processes to develop…