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The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) in charge of international health cooperation in the Americas.It fosters technical cooperation among member countries to fight communicable and noncommunicable diseases, strengthen health systems, and respond to emergencies and disasters.
The Pan American Journal of Public Health (Spanish: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública; Portuguese: Revista Pan-Americana de Saúde Pública) is a peer-reviewed open-access public health journal covering research and case studies on issues of public health significance, mainly in areas related to national and local health systems, to improve the health of the peoples of the Americas. [1]
Originally endorsed through the adoption of Resolution CD44.R by the Directing Council of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the overarching objectives of VWA are to promote equity and access to immunization and strengthen immunization programs in the Region of the Americas by “reaching the unreached”, populations with otherwise ...
Dengue cases have created an "emergency situation" in the Americas, although cases in hotspots Argentina and Brazil appear to have stabilized, the head of the Pan American Health Organization ...
The Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information or BIREME was founded in São Paulo in 1967 as the Biblioteca Regional de Medicina, [1] [2] a specialized center of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) / World Health Organization (WHO).
BVSes are organized under the auspices of the Pan-American Health Organization and the World Health Organization. VHL is a digital library and common space for the convergence of the cooperative work of producers, intermediaries , and users of information on healthcare science , built and developed by the Latin American and Caribbean Center on ...
The Global Initiative for Traditional Systems of Health (GIFTS) is a program launched in 1993 at the headquarters of the Pan American Health Organization in Washington, D.C. GIFTS states its purpose of "bringing into policy focus the importance of traditional (indigenous) medicine in the daily lives and health care of the majority of the population of most emerging economies."
In March 2015, Jornal da Band released recordings of a meeting prior to the launch of Mais Médicos, in which advisors from the Ministry of Health and the then coordinator of the program at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) discussed ways of disguising the objective of assisting the Cuban government by allocating most of the budget to ...