Suicide is a serious public health problem. Globally, the number of lives lost each year due to suicide exceeds the number of deaths due to homicide and war combined. Every suicide is a tragedy that affects families, communities and entire countries. Although more women attempt suicide than men, male suicide rates are higher, accounting for…
On November 6 and 7, a training the trainers course on the mhGAP Intervention Guide was held at the Institute of Social Medicine of the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). It was sponsored by PAHO Brazil and organized by the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on Primary Health Care (LIPAPS/UERJ), with the support of Rio's…
The first workshop for the preparation of Guatemala's National Strategic Plan for Mental Health was held on November 3. It was organized by the Mental Health Program of the Ministry of Health and PAHO/WHO Country Office, who convened key professionals in the area. The workshop was attended by representatives of the Ministry's Mental Health…
The II Central American Conference on Mental Health and Human Rights, -San José, October 17-21-, was organized by the Central American Mental Health Network "United Families for Mental Health", a user and family associations' network that is progressively integrating new groups in the Subregion.The Conference was attended by representatives of the…
Panama City, 9 December 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - Most of the differences in perinatal, neonatal, infant and under-5 mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are related to maternal wealth and education rather than to rural or urban residence. This is according to the Health Equity Report 2016, a statistical analysis of health indicators…
22 November 2016 - Today, UN human rights experts told countries that they need to do more to protect, promote and support breastfeeding as a human right, including ending the inappropriate marketing of breast-milk substitutes and other foods intended for infants and young children.
The joint statement was issued by the UN Special Rapporteurs on…
The third biennial Caribbean Regional Conference of Psychology, CRCP 2016, under the auspices of the Caribbean Alliance of National Psychological Associations (CANPA), and hosted by the Haitian Psychological Association (founded in 2010) was held in Port-au-Prince, November 7-11th. The conference theme, Promoting Caribbean Health with…
Dominican Republic, 03 November 2016 (PAHO/WHO) - In the context of the new mental health care approach, with a focus on users' rehabilitation and reintegration, improving their life quality and integrating their families and the community, World Mental Health Day was celebrated with the launch of the "I am like you, but you do not know" campaign…
Lima, 8 September. - Among the main reflections of the first forum on advances in suicide prevention "Embrace Life" was that having depression does not mean we are sick but that we have problems to solve in order to be better. Those were the words of the Director of Mental Health, Ministry of Health (MoH), Yuri Cutipe. "We must reflect on the…