In an effort to re-visit and revitalize PAHO's vision and approach to community health, an Expert's meeting was held in June in Washington, DC, gathering participants working within the field of community health in 14 different countries in the Americas, as well as personnel representing a variety of departments within PAHO. The results of the…
Globally, over 1 billion people do not have access to adequate health care. As overwhelming as this seems, there is an abundance of grass roots solutions that have successfully been implemented by passionate change-makers across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The Social Innovation in Health Initiative (SIHI) is a network of individuals and…
Halifax, 6-8 June. - At the Canadian Public Health Association Conference - CPHA 2017, the Pan American Health Organization conducted a session to review global and regional perspectives and experiences on addressing mental health and wellness and to examine how mental health has been integrated into primary health care in the Region. This session…
A technical workshop on the status and prospects of alcohol legislation in Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama) and the Dominican Republic took place May 23-25. Agents responsible for alcohol and non-communicable diseases from these countries' ministries of health and social insurance funds, as well as…
Awareness of the importance of mental health care and psychosocial support during emergencies, whether caused by complex humanitarian crises, natural disasters or epidemics, has clearly increased in recent years.Many organizations and governments in the Region of the Americas have developed interventions to give response to these events.
As there…
It is an innovative project approved by the Executive Committee of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) combining in a single website psychiatry and mental health magazines and publications of participating countries and organizations, published in Spanish in digital version, and permanently updated.Search can be done by keywords, subject area…
Chile's president, Michele Bachelet, presented the Commitment to Action of Santiago alongside representatives of 9 countries of the region, integration mechanisms and United Nations agencies, among them PAHO/WHO. This Commitment to Action seeks to start the implementation of the Global Strategy for Women's, Children´s and Adolescent's Health in…
Los países de la Región están haciendo serios esfuerzos para desplazar el eje de la atención, desde los servicios prestados en instituciones tradicionales hacia un modelo basado en la comunidad, que ofrezca cuidados integrales y continuos para las personas con trastornos mentales, epilepsia y en situación de discapacidad. El proceso de integración…
Port-au-Prince, June 27, 2017 (Panaftosa/PAHO)-The government of Brazil has donated 15,000 doses of human rabies vaccine to Haiti, with the support of the Pan American Foot-and-Mouth Disease Center of the Pan American Health Organization (Panaftosa/PAHO). The rabies vaccines are intended to protect humans after they have been exposed to rabies.The…