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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Plan of Action to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol

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 documentHarmful use of alcohol

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Plan of Action for the Prevention of Obesity in Children and Adolescents

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 documentMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthNutrition and food safetySocial determinants of healthPhysical inactivity+1

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Strategy and Plan of Action to Strengthen Tobacco Control in the Region of the Americas 2018-2022 Resolution

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

This document represents the Strategy and Plan of Acttion to Strengthen Tobacco Control in the Region of the Americas 2018-2022.

Strategy documentTobacco use

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Plan of Action for the Prevention and Control of NCDs in the Americas 2013-2019

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 Strategic Plan. At the same time it aligns with the World Health Organization (WHO) NCD Global Monitoring Framework and Global Action Plan 2013-2020.

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Adolescent and youth regional strategy and plan of action 2010–2018

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

This plan of action is intended to guide the preparation of current and future national adolescent and youth health plans, as appropriate, and to provide entry points for institutions and entities of all types who are interested in developing cooperation activities directed toward the Region’s 10–24-year-old population segment.

Strategy documentMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Health Technology Manual. Improving the Integrated Management of Chronic Diseases at the First Level of Health Care Services

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

The Pan American Health Organization’s (PAHO’s) Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases, ratified by the Directing Council in 2012, recommends the reorientation of health systems based on core principles of the integrated management of chronic diseases.

Strategy documentDigital health and innovationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health care

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Strategy and Plan of Action to Strengthen Tobacco Control in the Region of the Americas 2018-2022 Resolution

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

This document represents the Strategy and Plan of Acttion to Strengthen Tobacco Control in the Region of the Americas 2018-2022.

Strategy documentTobacco use

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Strategy and Plan of Action to Strengthen Tobacco Control in the Region of the Americas 2018-2022

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

This document offers a roadmap for prioritizing key provisions of the Convention that will enable the Member States to accelerate its implementation to meet targets established for the reduction of tobacco use and premature deaths from NCDs.

Strategy documentTobacco use

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Brasilia Consensus on Mental Health Services - 2013

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

This document gives the general concensus from the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and the Ministry of Health at the “1st Regional Meeting of Users of Mental Health Service and their Families.”

Strategy documentMental Health and Neurological Conditions

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

Strategic Planning for Tobacco Control - A Model for the African Region

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

This document provides a model for strategic planning that countries in the WHO African Region can use to identify both their priority strategies and action, and the key institutions that must work with them for successful implementation of the WHO FCTC. It also provides examples of strategies, actions, indicators, and even targets, that countries can plan for.

Strategy documentTobacco use

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

Research for Health: A Strategy for the African Region, 2016-2025

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

This strategy document highlights the high double burden of communicable and noncommunicable diseases in the African Region, and health systems challenges. It also points out the critical role of health research in providing evidence-based solutions for the much-needed health and development improvements.

Strategy documentCommunicable diseases

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WHO Regional Office for Africa

Achieving sustainable health development in the African region: strategic directions for WHO 2010–2015

Strategy document

17 Oct 2018

This strategy document guided the work of WHO in the African Region for the period 2010–2015. It highlights the issues, challenges, opportunities and priorities that should guide the work of the WHO Secretariat in the Region, and recognizes the socioeconomic dimension of health development.

Strategy document

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