Strengthening health promotion planning for action in the Americas

To facilitate implementation of the work plan, that same year the PAHO Secretariat made available to the national health authorities a “Guide for Evaluating the

Economic and Social Progress in Latin America—Annual Report, 1977.... Patterns of Mortality

Many thousands o f doctors, nurses and dentists are required to staff hospitals and other health units. Even larger num bers o f auxiliary workers are needed to

The, ten-year period 1954-1964 saw the following changes and important events which were directly or indirectly related to the health of the country: 1) the movement of the

In Table 16 are presented for 21 countries the numbers of deaths from all causes and from infectious and parasitic diseases together with rates per

In order to design effective communi- cation strategies, the different audiences (such as mothers, physicians, politi- cians) must be identified and appropriate

The precepts on Health Promotion advocate for strategies increase in order to develop the autonomy, impro- ve living conditions and health, promote an active and healthy aging,

To reorient the model of care towards health promotion and quality of life, in 1994 the Ministry of Health proposed the Family Health Program, later called the Family Health