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Applying Medical Anthropology to Public Healthsave-the-date The Gender and Cultural Diversity Unit of the Family, Gender, and Life Course…
PAHO, together with UICC, governments, and academia convene to discuss strategies to reduce inequities and increase access to childhood cancer care in Latin America and the Caribbean. Improving access to care for children with cancer and reducing the inequities associated with outcomes for children with cancer in Latin America and the Caribbean (…
We are proud to announce that a poster from the Region of the Americas was the top choice of participants at the World Health Organization 9th Global Conference on Health Promotion (9GCHP). Congratulations to the Ministry of Health of Argentina for their poster on Healthy Cities in Argentina! We are proud to announce that a poster from the Region…
Webinar on masculinities and suicide among men in the Americas Suicide is a serious public health problem. Globally, the number of lives lost each year due to suicide exceeds the number of deaths due to homicide and war combined. Every…
Brasil - mhGAP training in Rio de Janeiro brasil1 On November 6 and 7, a training the trainers course on the mhGAP…
Costa Rica - II Central American Conference on Mental Health and Human RightsThe II Central American Conference on Mental Health and Human Rights, -San José, October 17-21-, was organized by the Central American Mental Health Network "United…
cover mammography manual ENThe Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), in collaboration with regional experts and in consultation with the countries, developed a manual on…
9 December 2016, PANAMA CITY, Republic of Panama - Most of the differences in perinatal, neonatal, infant and under-5 mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are related to maternal wealth and education rather than to rural or urban residence. This is according to the Health Equity Report 2016, a statistical analysis of health…