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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

Final report on the Health-Related Millennium Development Goals in the Americas

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report is designed to emphasize those contributions which were most significant and effective in attaining the results seen, and draw out some of the lessons learned. It probes the outcomes and experiences of implementing the MDGs in the Region, to derive a set of pertinent and relevant reflections and recommendations.

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Strategic Fund. Annual Report 2017. Access to quality medicines and health

Report

17 Oct 2018

The Strategic Fund is a regional technical cooperation mechanism for pooled procurement of essential medicines and strategic public health supplies in the Americas. The Strategic Fund was created in 2000 by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) at the request of the Member States. Since then, the Fund has worked with countries to improve access to medicines and other health technologies, by...

ReportMultisectoral ActionAccess to essential medicines and servicesHealth system strengthening, including governance and financing

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Health in 2015: from MDGs, Millennium Development Goals to SDGs, Sustainable Development Goals

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report aims to describe global health in 2015, looking back 15 years at the trends and positive forces during the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) era and assessing the main challenges for the coming 15 years.

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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

Health Situation in the Americas: Core Indicators 2017

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This edition includes 82 core indicators for the countries, territories, and subregions of the Americas, which are categorized as follows: demographic-socioeconomic, health status, risk factors, services coverage, and health systems. Information is also included on 17 of the 27 indicators of Goal Three of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Report on Tobacco Control in the Region of the Americas 2018

Report

17 Oct 2018

The report summarizes the progress reported up to December 31, 2017 in the six main measures for tobacco control prioritized by the MPOWER tool: monitor tobacco use and prevention policies (M)*, protect people from tobacco smoke (P), offer help to quit tobacco (O)*, warn about the dangers of tobacco (W), enforce bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship (E), and raise taxes on tobacco...

ReportTobacco use

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Innovative Care for Chronic Conditions: Organizing and Delivering High Quality Care forChronic Noncommunicable Diseases in the Americas

Report

17 Oct 2018

This report describes a model of health care that could deliver integrated management of NCDs within the context of primary health care (PHC), and provides practical guidance for health care program managers, policy-makers, and stakeholders on how to plan and deliver high-quality services for people with CNCDs or CNCD risk factors.

ReportDigital health and innovationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health care

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Integrating HPV Testing in Cervical Cancer Screening Programs: a manual for program managers

Guide

17 Oct 2018

This guide, Integrating HPV Testing in Cervical Cancer Screening Programs: A Manual for Program Managers intends to fill this knowledge gap. It provides information on how to plan and implement a cervical cancer screening program, based on HPV testing as a primary screening test.

GuideCancerHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingPrimary health care

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Investing In Indigenous Young People To Achieve Healthy Populations

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This paper gives a situational analysis of indigenous adolescents and youth, highlighting the need for investment and scaling up of key health interventions.

PublicationMental Health and Neurological ConditionsMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Jamaica Tobacco Country Report

Fact sheet

17 Oct 2018

Charts showing Jamaica's status in several key areas of the FCTC and how it compares with the rest of the Region of the Americas.

Fact sheetCardiovascular DiseaseCancerChronic Respiratory DiseasesMental Health and Neurological Conditions+1

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WHO Regional Office for the Americas

Economic Dimensions of Noncommunicable Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean

Publication

17 Oct 2018

This volume explores the relationship between and the impact of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) on development and economic growth in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This collection of manuscripts examines the complex interplay among NCDs, health expenditures and financial investments in health, poverty, and inequities, using up-to-date information and evidence from the LAC...

PublicationHealth system strengthening, including governance and financingSocial determinants of health

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