Alcoholism and substance abuse, Colombia 1987

on Child Abuse Prevention distinguish four types of child maltreatment: physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional and psychological abuse, neglect..

Considering Resolutions XLI of the XXVII Meeting of the Directing Council, XXV of the XXI Pan American Sanitary Conference, and XVII of the XXIX Meeting of the

Although it may take several years before all the countries have epidemiological surveillance systems to measure the drug abuse problem and monitor its course, it

Although many countries still need to carry out baseline epidemio- logical research to define the nature of their drug abuse problem, the majority of the countries in the Region are

b) Field studies to determine indices of disorders of proven impor- tance in public health, i.e., suicide (or violent death), alcohol- ism, drug abuse, mental retardation,

This paper describes efforts that began in the 1970s to prevent alcohol and drug abuse among adolescents in Chile and discusses current health promotion

Los indicadores utilizados fueron las proporciones de incidencia de consumo, de prevalencia de consu- mo en el último mes, el último año y la prevalencia conjunta

This Institute has prepared a plan of action for the training of resources and the development of registers for the epidemiological surveillance of problems related to drug use in