Pan American Health Organization

Protecting the Public's Health

Natural Disasters

This publication is now out of print but a PDF is available at: www.paho.org/English/DD/PED/ManejoCadaveres.htm. A field manual for first responders published in 2006 ("Management of dead bodies after disasters, ISBN 9275126305)

Management of Dead Bodies in Disaster Situations

World Health Organization

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 

World Food Programme

United Nations Children's Fund

Latin America and the Caribbean managed to reduce the number of undernourished by 20 million compared to the year 2000. However, 2018 marks the fourth consecutive year in which hunger shows a continuous increases. Moderate or severe food insecurity in Latin America increased considerably. This increase caused more than 32 million people to join the almost 155 million who lived in food insecurity in the Region in 2014-2016. The Region has shown significant progress in reducing child malnutrition and it is significantly distant and below the global prevalence of malnutrition in girls and boys. However, malnutrition due to excessive weight in the Region is one of the highest in the world and it continues to increase. This year, the Regional Overview of Food Security and Nutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean focuses on food environments and describes some of the main policies that the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are developing to face the different forms of malnutrition.

Towards healthier food environments that address all forms of malnutrition

Regional Overview of Food Security in Latin America and the Caribbean

Pedro N. Acha

Boris Szyfres

Supersedes 2nd ed. 1987 (reprinted 1999) (ISBN 9275115036) (Scientific publication 503) and all previous eds. Also available as part of the complete 3 vol. set (ISBN 9275119910).

Zoonoses and Communicable Diseases Common to Man and Animals: Bacterioses and mycoses

286 references to monographs, bibliographies, and journals dealing with women's health needs and with women's roles in providing such care. Intended for professional personnel and other interested groups who address these issues. Arranged into sections on (1) women and health, and (2) women and development. Author index.

An Annotated Bibliography

Women, Health, and Development in the Americas

PAHO Staff

The 2002 edition of this quadrennial publication presents a regional analysis of the health situation and trends in the Americas region, as well as for each of the 47 countries and territories in the region. It is published in two volumes and covers mainly the years from 1997-2000. This edition focuses upon the inequalities in health. Volume One looks at issues dealing with leading health and health-related indicators, ranging from mortality and changes in life expectancy to the relationship between health and income distribution. It also considers current health conditions and trends including disease prevention and control, health promotion and environmental protection. Volume Two examines each country's overall health conditions, including institutional organisation, health regulations and the overall operation of health services.

Health in the Americas 2002

Tobacco, as has been amply proven, is hazardous to people's health. Nevertheless, in many of the countries of the Americas increasing urbanization and changing lifestyles have resulted in greater use of tobacco. At the same time, health and disease patterns in the developing countries of the hemisphere are undergoing and "epidemiologic transition," with chronic noncommunicable diseases displacing infectious diseases as the primary causes of morbidity and mortality. In the next few decades, these countries can be expected to face, and will need to prepare for, an epidemic of smoking-related diseases, particularly lung cancer, and a proportionaly imposing burden on national health services. To confront that epidemic and alleviate that burden, greater understanding is necessary of the historical, economic, political, and publich health aspects of the supply, demand, and consumption of tobacco. This publication aims to further that understanding by providing information on the general socioeconomic context, the tobacco industry, tobacco use, smoking and its effects on health, and smoking prevention and control activities in the countries of Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. Most of the information contained in this pulication cannot e found in any other single source. It will thus serve as a baseline of data for developing countries in the Region as they engage in the complex issues involved in preventing and controlling tobacco use. Health workers, researchers, and policy makers can use the information presented here to build a coalition against what may prove to be the most important pulic health problem of the 1990sm.

Status in the Américas

Tobacco Or Health

This book summarizes the rationale for the parameters and conditions that should be taken into consideration in the education and selection of blood donors, in order to allow blood service staff, community volunteers and prospective blood donors to understand them. In addition, it includes recommendations made by PAHO to the national health authorities and the national blood programs for promoting multidisciplinary and coordinated approaches for health promotion, public education, universal and regional human and patient rights-as applicable to blood donors and recipients-, quality assurance and financial efficiency in the issues pertaining to sufficiency, availability, access, quality, safety, and timeliness of blood for transfusion.

Recommendations for Education and Selection of Prospective Blood Donors

Eligibility for Blood Donation

Strategies

Health for All by the Year 2000

Kerr L. White

An Anthology

Health Services Research

Health Statistics from the Americas

Proceedings of a Workshop Held in Montego Bay, Jamaica, 8-11 May 1978

Dengue in the Caribbean, 1977

This publication is one of a series of practical field guides produced by the Pan American Health Organization with best practice guidance for immunisation programmes in the region. The last case of poliomyelitis in the Americas was detected in 1991, and this guide contains information on the strategies needed to maintain polio eradication in the region. Sections cover: epidemiology, clinical aspects, vaccines, immunisation activities, epidemiological surveillance, case investigation and monitoring.

Field Guide

Poliomyelitis Eradication

Communicating Woth the Public in Times of Disaster: Guidelines for Disaster Managers on Preparing and Disseminating Effective Health Messages

Julio Arboleda-Flórez

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) may not imply changes in the immigration laws of its signatories, but it will make it easier for people to move freely among Canada, Mexico, and the United States. One of the concerns arising from NAFTA involves meeting the health care needs of people who move from one member country to another. The publication analyzes the legal implications of the access to health care by individuals from NAFTA countries who are temporarily working or residing in another member country. The book compares the health systems of Canada, the United States, and Mexico, focusing on their principles and objectives, legal framework, institutional structure, operational modalities, and outcomes. Detailing the similarities and differences among the systems of these three countries, this publication attempts to anticipate the treaty's potential benefit or detriment to access to health care services and examines the expectations and concerns that free trade generates in this respect.

Acceso a Los Servicios de Salud en El Marco Del TLC

José Guillermo Estrada-Franco

George Brownlee Craig

Biology, Disease Relationships, and Control of Aedes Albopictus

Proposed Program and Budget Estimates

If current patterns of tobacco use persist, 10 million people will die worldwide by 2030 from tobacco related causes, half of them in developing countries.The best means of control is prevention and the Life Skills programmes are designed to give young people the information to resist the social and media pressures that encourage tobacco use.

A "life Skills" Primer

Tobacco-free Youth

C. David Jenkins

This manual provides guidance on proven disease prevention strategies and practical behavioral science principles for health workers involved in all levels of planning and operating local and regional health programmes. Issues discussed include: basic disease prevention principles; community health intervention strategies; improving health throughout the life cycle; leading forms of death and disability including brain and behavioural disorders, cardiovascular diseases, strokes and cancers; and successful strategies for behavioural change.

A Handbook of Behavioral Change

Building Better Health

This collection of papers reflects the discussions at a number of meetings held by the Pan American Health Organization to consider approaches to assess the performance of health systems and to identify steps to improve them. Health systems can be defined as those resources whose primary purpose is to improve health, including people and actions.

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