Briefs & Fact Sheets
10 Mar 2025
This is a series of 8 modules (fact sheets) for parents, caregivers and those caring for children with cancer, to help explain key palliative care concepts. These modules address general questions related to what pediatric palliative care is and how...
Report
17 Oct 2018
The main goal of this resolution is to call on Member States to prioritize the prevention of obesity and diabetes and their common risk factors by establishing and/or strengthening policies and programs, integrating them into public and private healt...
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This report was conceived as a practical tool that provides essential information to better understand suicidal behavior and the main strategies to combat it, from registry to the evaluation of interventions, taking into account the approaches alread...
Strategy document
17 Oct 2018
This strategy document sets out the principal areas of work to be addressed and identifies areas for technical cooperation to address the varying needs of Member States with regard to harmful alcohol consumption.
Strategy document
17 Oct 2018
This document, endorsed to reduce the harmful use of alcohol, proposes to use the WHO’s global strategy as the framework for action and includes a regional plan of action implementing the global strategy.
Strategy document
17 Oct 2018
This document provides Member States with the rationale and key strategic lines of action for comprehensive public health interventions to halt the progression of the obesity epidemic in children and adolescents.
Strategy document
17 Oct 2018
This Plan of Action proposes actions on NCDs by the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB) and by Member States that take into account regional and subregional initiatives, contexts, and achievements and follow the 2014-2019 timeline of the PAHO Strateg...
Report
17 Oct 2018
The Panorama of Food and Nutrition Security in Latin America and the Caribbean 2017, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), reports for the first time on the pro...
Strategy document
17 Oct 2018
This document embodies the experience gained in the Americas, particularly over the last two decades, and expresses the commitment of the governments of the Region.
Publication
17 Oct 2018
This thematic issue of the Pan American Journal of Public Health is part of a continued collaboration between the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and PAHO/WHO to facilitate intragovernmental dialogue for a better understanding of NCD issues b...
Report
17 Oct 2018
This document is a summary of an exploratory international meeting on regulation of marketing of alcohol products held at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) headquarters in Washington, D.C., USA, 12–13 January 2015.
Report
17 Oct 2018
The Panorama of Food and Nutrition Security in Latin America and the Caribbean 2017, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), reports for the first time on the pro...
